8 We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
Sounds simple enough... Weird that I tested this up to read...
D&C 121
13 Also because their hearts are corrupted, and the things which they are willing to bring upon others, and love to have others suffer, may come upon themselves to the very uttermost;
Sounds like 13 year old girls to me. This really does describe them when they are cliquey and mean.
14 That they may be disappointed also, and their hopes may be cut off;
15 And not many years hence, that they and their posterity shall be swept from under heaven, saith God, that not one of them is left to stand by the wall.
16 Cursed are all those that shall lift up the heel against mine anointed, saith the Lord, and cry they have sinned when they have not sinned before me, saith the Lord, but have done that which was meet in mine eyes, and which I commanded them.
17 But those who cry transgression do it because they are the servants of sin, and are the children of disobedience themselves.
18 And those who swear falsely against my servants, that they might bring them into bondage and death—
19 Wo unto them; because they have offended my little ones they shall be severed from the ordinances of mine house.
It's interesting that people will do that, (the last two verses) the people who will go about swearing falsely against people, I don't know who they think they are fooling because the people who are righteous wouldn't do that.
20 Their basket shall not be full, their houses and their barns shall perish, and they themselves shall be despised by those that flattered them.
21 They shall not have right to the priesthood, nor their posterity after them from generation to generation.
I'm guessing this just means that their posterity also won't be worthy of it and not that they just can't have it because that doesn't seem right to me.
22 It had been better for them that a millstone had been hanged about their necks, and they drowned in the depth of the sea.
This is a really sad thought that it would be better to have died earlier. But I don't think it matters because it's the attitude that counts whether it's earlier or later.
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interesting scriptures. the first one is interesting as well. The reason their posterity will not be able to hold the priesthood is because except in rare occasions the sins of the grandparents directly effect people down to the third generation. Especially in something like this. The grandparents would have raised their children to grow up hating the church and their children would have had that reinforced by the parents and grandparents. It can be avoided but is mostly not.
That's what I thought but it was weird to read it that way.
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