CES Devotional, ‘What Is the Blueprint of Christ’s Church?’, January 2014 “Some years ago my wife and I needed a bigger home… As the home was being constructed, we occasionally submitted to the builder a change order that revised the blueprint. When the home was finally completed, it was in exact conformity with our blueprint as revised from time to time. … In a similar way Christ built a home to best accommodate the spiritual needs of His children. It was called His Church. The spiritual blueprint for this Church can be found in the New Testament. Occasionally the Savior made a “change order” to the blueprint. Such a change order came in the form of a revelation.
For example, the Savior initially commanded His Apostles to preach the gospel to the house of Israel but not to the Gentiles (see Matthew 10:5–6). After the Savior’s Ascension, however, He gave Peter a spiritual change order—a revelation by way of a vision—that the gospel should now be taught also to the Gentiles (see Acts 10). … If one desired to discover Christ’s Church today, he would want to match the spiritual blueprint found in the New Testament against every Christian church in the world…In doing so, he might find some churches that had some similarities—a teaching or two that overlapped, an ordinance that is the same, some offices that bear common names—but he will only find one church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that matches the blueprint in every material respect.” — Tad R. Callister
John 19:28 “After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.”
Luke 24:44-48 “And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, 46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And ye are witnesses of these things.”
Mr. Callister’s explanation of how God fulfilled scripture is heretical blasphemy.
Jesus didn’t ‘need’ a change order to fulfill scripture! God, in His infinite wisdom, wanted to make sure mankind saw that He kept the promises He made in scripture.
Matthew 10:5-6 “These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: 6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
God sent Jesus to the Jews first (Acts 2:26) to turn their attention to how the Promised Messiah had arrived. They in turn, would take the good news to the Gentiles. It had always been the Lord’s plan to save Gentiles, but His first priority were His chosen people – the Jews.
Falsely claiming that Jesus put in a change order implies He didn’t know what would happen in the future.
Because Jesus is in fact God incarnate, He is sovereign which means there’s nothing He didn’t know beforehand.
Shame on Mr. Callister for spreading this incredibly horrific lie!
With Love in Christ;
Michelle
WOW!! This is a new one for me. The more I learn about Mormonism, the more bizarre it gets.
yeah, that was a surprising one for me as well when I came across it the other day. It seems they’ll sit around & think up stuff to invent instead of opening the Lord’s book to find truth. Sigh… 🙁