For most members I ask one question: Who or what do you turn to first when you are looking for answers?TheDuke wrote: ↑February 1st, 2023, 11:29 am I love your OP! I do not see it as idolatry however. Perverse maybe, but I take care and call idolatry as defined in the scriptures (not GA's GC talks) as literally worshiping an object, and that would include not only reverence to it but praying to it. Not sure anyone prays to the handbook or RMN.
For most people I know its...
What has President Nelson said about this?
What does the handbook say about this?
instead of...
What has the Lord said about this?
I've posted this before on the forum but I'll post it again:
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper ... ust-1835/3We discover an error in Elder Marshe’s letter— He says, “To the able preaching of Elders W. E. M.c.Lellin & P. P. Pratt.” We conclude that if it had been the preaching of the Lord, as it should have been, he would have had the honor, and not these men.