Comments on: Changing the Sacred Word of Brother McConkie https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/ Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues. Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:32:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Stephen M (Ethesis) https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/comment-page-1/#comment-35216 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:32:39 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/#comment-35216 with ‘tapir’"</p> <p>Interesting that the Book of Mormon refers to keeping "flocks" of horses rather than herds and never talks about calvary.</p> ]]> “replacing the word ‘horse’ with ‘tapir’”

Interesting that the Book of Mormon refers to keeping “flocks” of horses rather than herds and never talks about calvary.

]]> By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/comment-page-1/#comment-35167 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:05:47 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/#comment-35167 See here for a reason, ltbugaf.

]]> By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/comment-page-1/#comment-35151 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:36:19 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/#comment-35151 Jeff Lindsay has posted an excellent discussion of this topic over at Mormanity: http://mormanity.blogspot.com/2007/11/among-principal-ancestors-unpricipled.html#comments

]]> By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/comment-page-1/#comment-35150 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:32:49 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/#comment-35150 Re: the comments on “horses.” Why deliberately ignore the obvious difference between changing the words of the actual scripture and changing the words of an explanatory introduction that has never even been represented as scripture?

]]> By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/comment-page-1/#comment-35148 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:47:15 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/#comment-35148 Good point, mtnnomad. Sometimes I forget that most members I know aren’t like those on the Bloggernacle. They still believe many of the traditions.

]]> By: mtnnomad https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/comment-page-1/#comment-35146 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:09:32 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/#comment-35146 Many church leaders for years have been referring to any and all indigenous people of North and South America as Lamanites. I hope that this classification does not continue or becomes very rare.

I have been wondering if there will be any direction to the church membership or to the unit leaders to reflect this change. Again I hope so. A silent change in the introduction in the BoM may go unnoticed by most.

]]> By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/comment-page-1/#comment-35145 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:40:23 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/#comment-35145 . . . or “horse-like creature”.

]]> By: rick https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/comment-page-1/#comment-35144 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:53:09 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/#comment-35144 Perhaps future editions will also be replacing the word ‘horse’ with ‘tapir’… :P

]]> By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/comment-page-1/#comment-35141 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:25:06 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/#comment-35141 I wonder if any other changes will eb made to those future editions. I also wonder if by saying “is printing”, Corbin is saying those editions are currently in production.

]]> By: Jeff Milner https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/comment-page-1/#comment-35138 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:44:55 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/11/15/changing-the-sacred-word-of-brother-mcconkie/#comment-35138 According to this Salt Lake Tribune article, the church is planning on making the change in its own print run:

“LDS leaders instructed Doubleday to make the change, said senior editor Andrew Corbin, so it ‘would be in accordance with future editions the church is printing.'”

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