(August 8, 2017 at 6:32 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Still, most religions change and don't acknowledge it. I can remember going to a Catholic high school, and we were once taught about the subject of divorce, how, in the Gospels, Christ said it was okay for a man to divorce his wife if she was unfaithful, and then in the thirteenth century or so (or perhaps earlier), the Church decided it was not acceptable under any circumstances. The teacher (an otherwise fairly intelligent man) did not see any contradiction between "maybe in some circumstances" and "never ever ever."
That said, given that the 1800s were a far more literate time than the first century AD, it's obvious that the shifts in Mormon thought would be a lot more obvious.
compounded by the Mormons belief they had been commanded by God to be a "record keeping people" and then for decades they had a propensity to publish everything, and since their pew warmers took their church seriously (even as the poohbahs running it did not) many folks kept their copies.
So it turned out to be pretty easy for dedicated researcher's to catch the Mormon's in change after change and lie after lie, even 100 years later. Turns out EVERY revelation they have received from God for well over their first century of existence has been riddled with errors and God has had to revise (sometimes by 180 degree shifts in meaning) EVERY single one of them at least once, and the vast majority of them have been revised 2 or more times.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
