Mister Scratch wrote: Eh, I don't know about this. I suppose that the WoW isn't "technically" a "commandment" in an According to Hoyle sort of way, but it nevertheless is an important rule that LDS are expected to follow. I mean, "technically," one couldn't get a temple recommend without adhering to the WoW, right?
Yes, but that requirement dates only to the 1930 handbook of instructions.
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
Mister Scratch wrote:I suppose that the WoW isn't "technically" a "commandment" in an According to Hoyle sort of way, but it nevertheless is an important rule that LDS are expected to follow. I mean, "technically," one couldn't get a temple recommend without adhering to the WoW, right?
True, but the CHI also expressly forbids Church discipline (or even the threat of) for a member's failure to comply with the WofW.
"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)
Bond...James Bond wrote:What was the prize? I guessed "never!!!!".
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A virtual pat on the back. :-)
Oww! Watch the sunburn. :)
Now for the next trivia question:
How many states in the US currently have LDS temples?
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"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
Runtu wrote:When did the Word of Wisdom officially become a "commandment"? First to answer correctly wins a prize.
According to Quinn, BY made breaking the WofW an excommunicable offense at a special conference on September 9, 1851, but it was rarely enforced. Joseph F. Smith made it a requirement to receive a temple recommend on April 10, 1910. At the April 1932 Gen'l Conference, Heber J. Grant began his crusade to enforce the WofW.
"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)
Rollo Tomasi wrote:True, but the CHI also expressly forbids Church discipline (or even the threat of) for a member's failure to comply with the WofW.
The current CHI, or the previous edition?
Both.
"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)
moksha wrote:Okay, who was the last LDS President to ever drink alcohol?
You know, the last I've seen documentation for is John Taylor, but I have no idea about his successors.
My guess is that those who were intimates with Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, may have share a glass of the spirits with them. I am uncertain of which future Presidents or Apostles this may have included.
moksha wrote:Okay, who was the last LDS President to ever drink alcohol?
You know, the last I've seen documentation for is John Taylor, but I have no idea about his successors.
My guess is that those who were intimates with Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, may have share a glass of the spirits with them. I am uncertain of which future Presidents or Apostles this may have included.
If you're talking about drinking while they were presidents, I don't know who the last was, but Heber J. Grant drank, sometimes quite heavily, as a young man.
“Young Heber J. Grant's Years of Passage.” Brigham Young University Studies 24 (Spring 1984): 131–49.