This thread truly frightens me

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Originally Posted by BlueHair

Man has proven untrustworthy. If you want to rely on someone else to do your thinking, it is your prerogative. There is nothing in D & C 1 that requires us to obey leaders or think that leaders are equivalent to God.

Red herring. No one is asking you to let someone else do your thinking, or view your leaders as equivalent to God.

Originally Posted by jay santos

This is an example of what I'm talking about.

http://www.signaturebookslibrary.org...y/chapter9.htm

Times have changed. We've been over this. Church government has evolved greatly over the many, many decades.