DeepShadow
White Crow
Thanks, AD. See, when the ban was lifted in 1978, there were a lot of people with egg on their faces. They had been trying to explain why the ban was in place, and the explanations were all smashed to bits by OD2. It was wrong for them to try to fill in the WHY when God had not shared it with them. That quote you led me to made me realize that I was doing the same thing: I was trying to fill in the why after the fact, when God had not revealed it to me.
This is, in the end, a matter of faith. I used to think that I had faith because of how much of the gospel I understood. As a teenager, I went to Sunday school and found myself saying, "I get it!" I thought that was faith. Now as an adult, as life gets more complicated, as I get deeper into the knotty problems of the world and the church, I find myself saying, "I don't get it...but I trust You."
Looking back over the church history, all I can say is that the modern church seems to have done a good job of removing racism from their ranks. I was too young to understand personal revelation when Kimball died, but I've prayed about every prophet since, and God has told me to follow them.
This is, in the end, a matter of faith. I used to think that I had faith because of how much of the gospel I understood. As a teenager, I went to Sunday school and found myself saying, "I get it!" I thought that was faith. Now as an adult, as life gets more complicated, as I get deeper into the knotty problems of the world and the church, I find myself saying, "I don't get it...but I trust You."
Looking back over the church history, all I can say is that the modern church seems to have done a good job of removing racism from their ranks. I was too young to understand personal revelation when Kimball died, but I've prayed about every prophet since, and God has told me to follow them.