Some Schmo wrote:The whole thing is up for grabs. It just depends on what society deems good and bad, and what changes will make the church more marketable.
We're throwing out the 'no sex before marriage' thing?
It worked for Joseph Smith, didn't it? ;-)
No, I thought he married them all ;)
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
Scottie wrote:SWSU, Are you asking which doctrines will be actively retracted by the brethren, or which ones will just kind of fall away into obscurity as something some old prophet said at some point?
I'm thinking of the ones that just sorta fall away, are forgotten about to the point that when someone brings it up decades later, TBMs think it is an anti-mormon lie. Church leaders rarely officially retract anything because so little is official doctrine.
"We of this Church do not rely on any man-made statement concerning the nature of Deity. Our knowledge comes directly from the personal experience of Joseph Smith." - Gordon B. Hinckley
"It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Mormon Church even if the criticism is true." - Dallin H. Oaks