tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17269295.post698548111408752448..comments2023-10-31T08:13:50.130-04:00Comments on Lair of the Sinister Porpoise: The Sinister Porpoisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06598370622023551565noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17269295.post-39535005885488047342007-01-03T12:42:00.000-05:002007-01-03T12:42:00.000-05:00Without my own computer I cannot easily show why y...Without my own computer I cannot easily show why you're wrong.<br /><br /> Give me time and I'll show you the relevant quotes. I believe Brigham Young is responsible and you need to pay attention to what the church *has* taught, not just what it denies teaching now.The Sinister Porpoisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06598370622023551565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17269295.post-77286351636252188232007-01-02T21:46:00.000-05:002007-01-02T21:46:00.000-05:00The Church has rather taught that our position in ...The Church has rather taught that our position in the present life has relation to our faithfullness in the last life, this is not inherently tied to skin pigmentation. There are individuals of dark skin who've been born into third world countries that have greater blessings and capabilities with regard to the gospel than many caucasian kids born into relatively wealthy families in Utah have. Advantage and disadvantage, and it's correlating causation from the previous life, is not some simply assertainable item that can be derived from the likes of skin color or socio-economic status or the fact of one being born into a Mormon household. Things are far more complex than that. I know too many individuals that were born outside of all stereotypical "mormon" environs yet were more prepared for accepting and living and magnifying the gospel than many of my peers growing up in Utah.<br /><br />So the Church has and does continue to teach that blessings come from previous action at some point and time. But these blessings are not inherently stemming from the actions of the individual receiving them NOR do material blessings or variations in genetic makeup inherently make one clearly more blessed than another.<br /><br />Such assumption and extrapolations that many attempt to tie to our faith are erroneous assumptions.HiveRadicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13833171988761106511noreply@blogger.com