I recently wrote a post about how the church claims to have a modern prophet and apostles, yet when they fail to be the prophets, seers and revelators they claim to be, they are ” just men “. To clarify, I am not debating their claim to be prophets nor to have to right to revelation, but I get confused about how they get away with playing both sides. One of my daughters once came home from seminary and told me her teacher told her that our leaders will never lead us astray.
I was very active and faithful at the time but I told her that was not true and we still had to use judgement. She argued with me and even tried to quote the same scriptures her teachers had given. I had to tell her about all the instances I had witnessed or knew someone that witnessed in my lifetime up to that point. She was still confused because “Her Seminary Teacher said it!” They are never wrong, right? I mentioned some of these point before but here are the details:
Speaking of Seminary teachers: What about the Seminary Teacher that was having sex with one of his students. He used his “celebrity status” to seduce her and lead her astray…
In one ward, the Bishop called a single mother with a very young daughter to clean the church. I know the church has a property management company that does that but this poor mother apparently didn’t know or was so eager to strive for the Celestial Kingdom, so she came every week to clean. She asked what she should do with her daughter and the Bishop told her to bring her and have her sit in the chapel while she cleaned. Week after week, once the mother reached the other end of the building, the Bishop made his way into the chapel and molested the little girl. This went on for almost 2 years before the little girl started having terror fits about going to the church.
You can’t convince ME that mother was not led astray and you CAN”T tell me that little girl was not led astray and that she will not suffer the consequences of that her whole life.
Another ward: the Bishop and all his Boy Scout leaders seemed to go camping a lot. They were having orgies with the young boys. This went on for way too long and several of those boys ended up being gay.
You can’t tell me those boys were not led astray. Were the leaders led astray by their bishop who apparently told them it was ok?
One man was an adulterer. In the midst of his adulterous activities, he was called to be a bishop. He accepted, …callings are revelation, right? He continued his adultery. He got caught. When asked how he could do that, he answered, “I was already doing it when God called me to be a bishop. I thought that was a sign it was all right.”
I personally went in for my first temple recommend interview after marriage. (a year later)
My bishop asked me the usual questions then he asked if my hubby and I engaged in unusual sexual practices. I was so naive, I had to ask what he meant. He promptly and eagerly explained oral sex to me….then asked me again if I engaged in such a practice. Of course, if I don’t even know what it is, how could I be doing it??? I said “no” again. He asked me about 3 more times, making me very uncomfortable. He wouldn’t let it go and I couldn’t figure why he couldn’t seem to take no for an answer!!!
A few years later, I heard he was having sex with women in the ward. I am convinced he was feeling me out to see if I was game for his games. Luckily, I was naive. I walked out of there thinking that any sex other than missionary style was grounds for not being worthy of going to the temple. I walked out of the next 5 temple recommend interviews wondering why I didn’t get asked about my marital sexual practices again. (That was about when I heard the news about this man)
CHURCH LEADERS CAN AND DO LEAD THE MEMBERS ASTRAY!!!
You must use your own judgement. Remember it was Satan’s plan to make us blind followers so we could be returned to our God without having to think for ourselves.
After writing the last post on this subject, there was an article in the Salt Lake Trib. I found it interesting. I can’t remember the proper way to not infringe on copyright so I will just post the link to the story. It is pretty good and it goes with what I am talking about. (better than the way I tend to go off on tangents and lose the point I am trying to make).
Click here for story on Infallible Church Leaders…
