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Common Delusion of Each Generation

by Art Bulla

Sun, Jun 19, 2011

A foppish caller into Van Hale program to contradict me, quoted a source (unkown) which said that modern authority takes precedence over all other authority, living or dead, even if this contradicts all others. Because this generation, it was said, is in possession of the most light and knowledge. Therefore they are free to contradict Brigham Young, because he was a knuckle dragging bigot, etc. "The law and the testimony" of former prophets, contained in the Bible, Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants, because of this "modernism" is therefore to be ignored. This program was spent in rebuking this foppish attitude (the caller was manifestly effeminate).  A quote:  "Every generation has flattered itself that it is a little better than the one that preceded it. Every generation has prided itself in its knowledge and great advancement in the arts and sciences and its superiority over preceding generations; yet the power of the adversary and his hatred of righteousness and truth are as great to-day as they ever were since the creation of the earth.(George Q. Cannon, Journal of Discourses, 26 vols., 11:, p.229)

Actually, mankind has degenerated from the physical, spiritual and intellectual superiority of the Ancients who were "mighty men in the earth" and "lived to the age of a tree..."

9 For this man, saith the Lord, I did make
large in stature like unto them of old, who were
mighty men in the earth, and strong of sinew
and bone and whose constitution, saith the
Lord, was mighty that they did live unto the
age of a tree in the life thereof and because of
the constitution of that body which I the Lord
God did give unto them, they did stave off
death, and this because of their righteousness
before me.  The Revelations of Jesus Christ, Section 6

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• "But we ask, does it remain for a people who never had faith enough to call down one scrap of revelation from heaven, and for all they have now are indebted to the faith of another people...does it remain for them to say how much God has spoken and how much He has not spoken?"  Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Two 1834-37 Pg.60
•  Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Six 1843-44 Pg.365
     When a man goes about prophesying, and commands men to obey his teachings, he must either be a true or false prophet. 
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•  "All men are liars who say they are of the true Church without the revelations of Jesus Christ and the Priesthood of Melchizedek, which is after the order of the Son of God."  Joseph Smith; TPJS p. 376
• "He that can mark the power of Omnipotence, inscribed upon the heavens, can also see God's own handwriting in the sacred volume: and he who reads it oftenest will like it best, and he who is acquainted with it, will know the hand wherever he can see it...." (T.P.J.S., p. 56)

·         10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. (New Testament | Galatians 1:10 - 12)

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