I don't like the trend I've been noticing from general authorities in which they try to discourage people from talking about Mother in Heaven. Especially since we're seeing a metamorphosis in the reasoning from "she's too sacred to even mention" to "we just don't know enough to speculate."
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| In Their Image, Caitlin Connolly |
I mean, I can pull at least half a dozen scriptures off the top of my head as to why saying "No thank you" to the knowledge God has to bestow is a bad idea.
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
whosoever hath, to him shall be , and he shall have more : but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
Matt. 13:11-12
But I think these two will suffice for now.
And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am the yesterday, today, and forever; and that I speak forth my according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have spoken one ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another; for my is not yet finished; neither shall it be until the end of man, neither from that time henceforth and forever.
Wherefore, because that ye have a Bible ye need not suppose that it contains all my ; neither ye suppose that I have not caused more to be written.
2 Ne. 29:9-10
The biggest impediment to this approach is how much of a mixed message it has already become, whether general leadership knows that or not. They don't seem to understand that there are women in this church alive today who have been promised knowledge of and interactions with Heavenly Mother in their patriarchal blessings. There is no way for them to be doing all this and not to have to eat crow for it later.
