The talk, by Elder Lynn G. Robbins, in the Saturday Morning Session, on never forgetting, as Latter-say Saints which way we face clearly and succinctly served notice to the LDS counterculture, so recently active in the public square, on the Internet, in certain noted political special interest groups, at BYU, at Sunstone and Dialogue, and at what was once the Neil A. Maxwell Institute (which is to say, an organization that could be said to have some relation to his memory and lifes mission as an apostle of Jesus Christ), that the gate is still very much strait, the way still very much narrow: The scornful often accuse prophets of not living in the 21st Century, or of being bigoted. They attempt to persuade or even pressure the Church into lowering Gods standards to the level of their inappropriate behavior, Which, in the words of Elder Neil A. Maxwell leads to self-contentment but not self-improvement or repentance. Having said this, Elder Robbins pulls the proverbial plug: Lowering the Lords standards to the level of a societys inappropriate behavior is apostasy. There, its done. The genie is out of its bottle. The Kraken has been released. The cat is out of his pajamas, and the cow, having cleared the moon, is reentering the atmosphere, udders flapping in the supersonic breeze. Clearly, the time has come for the Church to enforce its boundaries and boundary conditions, and give the wolves among the flock to understand that that which walks, looks, and quacks like a duck is a duck, and that wolves neither quack nor eat ivy (as do little lambs, and if you get that little piece of cultural trivia, youre at least as old as I am). There is no need to name names, groups, or movements here, nor ideologies or the drifting of some prominent LDS intellectuals into murky, torpid philosophical/theological waters (much of which was encompassed within Elder Oaks remarks, at another recent Conference, relative to political correctness which he characterized as a failure to follow Christ). We know of what he speaks. They know of what and who he speaks. Light is the great disinfectant as well as the great cosmic solvent. The Book of Mormon, as President Benson said, is a great sieve (as is the Book of Abraham), and the wheat and the tares are in a great vineyard, still growing together, still maturing, and still in a process of sifting, filtering, and choosing that which they list to obey.
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 02:54:54 +0000
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