Plutarch wrote:Do you think your name will be memoralized in the D&C commending you for your financial sacrifice? What better way of memoralization than having your name in canonized scripture?
Agreed, but today very few members know anthing about Oliver Granger; for all intents and purposes, he's been forgotten. That's why I propose that the Church put up his statue on Temple Square. If we can have seagulls, why not Oliver?! ;)
"Moving beyond apologist persuasion, LDS polemicists furiously (and often fraudulently) attack any non-traditional view of Mormonism. They don't mince words -- they mince the truth."
-- Mike Quinn, writing of the FARMSboys, in "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View," p. x (Rev. ed. 1998)
Plutarch wrote:Do you think your name will be memoralized in the D&C commending you for your financial sacrifice? What better way of memoralization than having your name in canonized scripture?
Agreed, but today very few members know anthing about Oliver Granger; for all intents and purposes, he's been forgotten. That's why I propose that the Church put up his statue on Temple Square. If we can have seagulls, why not Oliver?! ;)
My one lasting contribution to Mormondom, I suppose, is the monument I helped create on Temple Square. Every time I hear the Nauvoo Bell toll on BYU Radio, I think of it.
Rollo Tomasi wrote:1. D&C 117:12 (July 18, 1838): "And again, I say unto you, I remember my servant Oliver Granger; behold, verily I say unto him that his name shall be had in sacred remembrance from generation to generation, forever and ever, saith the Lord."
Oliver died in Kirtland in 1841, and is virtually unknown today, even by TBM's. This prophecy could easily be fulfilled by erecting a statue of the man on Temple Square. ;)
Hmm. Do you think your name will be memoralized in the D&C commending you for your financial sacrifice? What better way of memoralization than having your name in canonized scripture?
Great example of why this 'prophecy' is unfalsifiable, and thus, unimpressive. It can mean whatever anyone want's it to mean...
One my favorite prophecies was one uttered by Spencer W. Kimball. He was sitting in a restaurant in Guatemala with the first mission president of that country (my grandfather), the week the mission opened. Elder Kimball pointed to a waiter and remarked that the man would be the first Melchizedek Priesthood holder in that country.
The man was not the first baptized -- he wasn't baptized for a year or more. He wasn't the first to receive the Aaronic Priesthood. But, he did join the church and was indeed the first to receive the higher priesthood.
Source please? Word of mouth? Any other examples?
WK: "Joseph Smith asserted that the Book of Mormon peoples were the original inhabitants of the americas"
Will Schryver: "No, he didn’t." 3/19/08
Still waiting for Will to back this up...