{"id":176,"date":"2005-06-20T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=176"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"by-the-voice-of-my-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/06\/20\/by-the-voice-of-my-servants\/","title":{"rendered":"By the Voice of My Servants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>In PEC meeting yesterday morning, the person giving the spiritual though, used D&#038;C 1:38  to explain how what the general authorities say is from God.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken, and I excuse not myself; and though the heavens and the earth pass away, my word shall not pass away, but shall all be fulfilled, whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants, it is the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is very common among members of the Church to use this scripture to support the thought that everything the general authorities is as if the Lord was speaking. Yet this passage does not say that at all. What it does say is that whether the Lord chooses to fulfil His word through Himself or His servants, it is the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why members of the Church do this so often. Why do they unnecessarily extrapolate on scriptures to find ideas that are not there?<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In PEC meeting yesterday morning, the person giving the spiritual though, used D&#038;C 1:38 to explain how what the general &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/06\/20\/by-the-voice-of-my-servants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">By the Voice of My Servants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>By the Voice of My Servants<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/06\/20\/by-the-voice-of-my-servants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"By the Voice of My Servants\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In PEC meeting yesterday morning, the person giving the spiritual though, used D&#038;C 1:38 to explain how what the general &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/06\/20\/by-the-voice-of-my-servants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Our Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kim Siever\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kim Siever\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/06\/20\/by-the-voice-of-my-servants\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/06\/20\/by-the-voice-of-my-servants\/\",\"name\":\"By the Voice of My Servants\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99e996edc89affe5206808d3f65869d1\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/06\/20\/by-the-voice-of-my-servants\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/\",\"name\":\"Our Thoughts\",\"description\":\"Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99e996edc89affe5206808d3f65869d1\",\"name\":\"Kim Siever\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/417c7b5f55d329bdd0f64ef4396831db?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/417c7b5f55d329bdd0f64ef4396831db?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kim Siever\"},\"description\":\"Queer Mormon poet with radical political views. 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