Chapter 3: Intellectual Gymnastics

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Chapter 3: Intellectual Gymnastics

The myriad of excuses to obfuscate the truth.

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65. (4:17) read in the recording above.

66. (7:17) “Now those men, or those women, who know no more about the Holy Spirit, than to be led entirely by another person, suspending their own understanding, and pinning their faith upon another’s sleeve, will never be capable of entering into the celestial glory,” Brigham Young. JD 1:312, https://scriptures.byu.edu/#:t273c:j01

67. (7:53) This entire article is well worth a thoughtful study: “10 Largely Forgotten, but Timeless Principles, in Sustaining Leaders”, James F. Stoddard III and L. Hannah Stoddard, Joseph Smith Foundation, https://josephsmithfoundation.org/10-largely-forgotten-but-timeless-principles-in-sustaining-leaders/.

Oaks quote (8:33) YSA CES fireside 1 May 2005: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2006/06/dating-versus-hanging-out?lang=eng#title1

68. (9:01) https://news.yahoo.com/mormon-vaccine-push-ratchets-dividing-041316188.html

69. (11:00) Matt 18:7. Many erudite pontificators like to imagine Judas betraying Jesus as some part of a righteous scheme as well. Jesus quells this position as recorded in Luke 22:22 “And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!”

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