Originally Posted by mfblume
Every denomination and movement has some things that are "dated", and were right for that date, but not another. Robes were exchanged for pants at one time or other.
Every group has traditions, also, that are wrong, though held by people who are quite sincere in thinking they are correct. No one is perfect here yet.
People generally adhere tenaciously to what teachings they were first taught, never to consider anything different, be it Mormon doctrine or whatever. That is good if they were taught the truth at first. But what if some error was mixed amongst the truths they were first taught? So few people can allow even GOD to change them if they are in error. Just because something happened by our ears, in the form of teaching, before another message did, does not mean it is correct. What about the person who heard something else preached to them first before what we first heard preached to us? If everyone was to go by whatever they first heard preached, and stuck to it with all their guns, closed to the possibility they may be wrong in perhaps ONE area or ALL of it, SOMEONE IS WRONG and will never be recovered if they happen to have been taught error.
I believe the Holy Ghost came to guide us into all truth. The moment we think we do not have to be led any more, nor corrected about any teaching any more, is the moment the Spirit leaves us. So it is only to be expected that things change as time goes by in the way of beliefs.
But a person can go in one of three ways! One can change from a belief and thereby depart from truth. On the other hand, it may mean change TO truth. Or, it may mean change from what is error to another error.
So it is rather circular, and really only spinning our wheels, when we compare what we believed and were taught in the past with what we believe differently and are taught differently now. What if BOTH teachings are wrong? How do we know? Everyone says the bible says what they believe, from Mormons to us Apostolics. The bible is not the problem. It's OUR INTERPRETATION of the Bible that can be the problem. Yes, there is ONE interpretation that is correct and all others are wrong. We can say that for every single verse of the bible. Which one is correct? It is the one we must pray about in order for God to show us, and towards which we must be open for correction. If we already know the truth about a verse, then we still should pray for correction, because ultimately only God knows if we do have it right, and he will confirm it if we do.
This is why we must seek God with everything sincere in us, and pray "lead me not into temptation, but deliver me from evil." Pray that God keeps us on, or directs us to, the narrow way which leadeth unto life, where few there be that find it.
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