Loading ...BYU paper calls LDS leaders ‘apostates’
flockwoodFile this one under “We Really, Really, Really Regret the Error.
The Daily Universe, the student newspaper at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, referred to leaders of the Mormon Church Monday as apostates.
Typically, the church leaders are referred to as apostles.
Which reminds me of the old saying, sometimes attributed to Mark Twain: “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug…”
April 7th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Freudian slip?
April 8th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Oops!
April 8th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
It happens to the best of us. But it legitimately happened to two ancestors (father and son) of mine, who were thrown out of a Baptist church in Kentucky in 1793 for heresy. I told my son that I was going to have t-shirts made proclaiming that our family has been heretical for 200 years and counting . . .
April 8th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
You know, one of the comments on the linked article make a good point; the original 12 apostles would have certainly been apostates according to the Jewish council of the time.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
That’s right, David. Everything changes with your perspective. We talk about insurgents in Iraq being the enemy, but during the Revolutionary War, our troops were considered insurgents by the British and their leaders considered traitors. I’d hazard a guess that most progress in the world has been made by people who were considered traitors or heretics by the ruling establishment.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
My father says that nothing earth-changing would be accomplished in this world without, as he terms them, revolutionaries and reactionaries.
April 9th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
That is very true, David, though I’ve always been more revolutionary than reactionary. I really do have a picture of Che Guevara posted on my refrigerator.
April 10th, 2009 at 5:13 am
Apostates – rather than Apostles – actually it is a traversty of the word ‘apostate’ – these Mormon leaders never professed the Christian faith in the first place for them to apostacise . With respect to the 15 ‘Apostles’ of Mormonism the Bible has this to say of them ” For such are false apostles deceitful workers , transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ . And no marvel ; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light” 2 Corinthians Ch11v 13-14
August 30th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
The Scriptures are full of scoffers like you, they even called the Son of God a son of a devil, they too would not accept Him as who He claimed to be, the same with His Apostles and Disciples. Nothing has changed and so it goes today. Satan knows where the TRUTH lies and is doing all in his power to thwart the work but he cannot. So go ahead with your slander and you soon be as those in Joseph Smith’s day here today and gone tomorrow.
“No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in evry ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.”