Romans 15:4; “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.”
My heart grieves for Mr. Callister, and at the same time I can’t help but wonder how he reconciles the statement he made here.
I too, can ‘live with’ the human imperfections we see in the lives of the men God chose to be His holy prophets like Jonah, Moses, Jeremiah, and Hosea, et al. However, the major difference here lies in the prophecies of these men and those of a self-proclaimed prophet named Joseph Smith. The former didn’t pronounce false prophecies, and they didn’t denounce what God had already proclaimed. Smith is guilty of both.
Mr. Callister said –
‘I can live with some alleged scientific findings contrary to the BoM; time will correct those’.
Oh, this is where my heart gets sad. You could wait a billion years Mr. Callister, and problems in the BoM will still be there He also said he could live with some historical anomalies.
How? How can he live with these ‘anomalies’ when they’re the problem?
Finally, Mr. Callister said he couldn’t live without Smith’s revelations on the priesthood, forever families and temple ordinances…
How can he trust those things when Smith lied about the foundational canon of the Church? (Book of Mormon)