Is God Restricted The Priesthood?

[Pahoran]

Originally posted by bizabra@Feb 23 2004, 10:20 AM

SNORT! There's one thing I can count on when it comes to you, Peace, you believe the falsehoods you have created in YOUR OWN MIND!

Please show where I have "hurt" anyone here by any of my postings. Please.

You are a sad sad deluded person. Heh heh heh

Isn't Peace the one that believes that people live on the moon?

M-O-O-N. That spells quakers that live on the moon.

[Guest Starsky]

Isn't Peace the one that believes that people live on the moon?

M-O-O-N. That spells quakers that live on the moon.

Again...you leave out vital info. I believe there is a dimension where past souls to live on the moon. Like a realm of heaven. Only those whose spiritual eyes are prepared to see and know...will see and know.

Everyone else....well, they either don't need to know, or can't know.

You apparently are in the second group. I wouldn't go around advertising that fact if I were you.

[Ray]

Originally posted by TheProudDuck@ Feb 20 2004, 12:15 PM

Ray -- It's actually a relatively recent development that you need special authority to be a lawyer. Time was, you'd just study law and hang up a shingle, like Thomas Jefferson did.

Thanks for the information, but I was trying to make a point of showing how every government has procedures for granting authority to others.

Even when someone was allowed to become a lawyer by simply hanging up a shingle, a lawyer’s authority had to be recognized as legitimate by the higher authorities in government, such as the court who would acknowledge that the lawyer was allowed to act as a lawyer. And even if everyone was allowed to be a lawyer, with no qualifications whatsoever, it would only be allowed because the higher authorities had allowed everyone to be a lawyer.

Can you imagine the confusion in that situation? Would you want to be represented by just anybody who was able to call himself a lawyer? Would you trust him with your life? How would you know whether or not he knew the law? Would the number of clients he has have any influence on your decision to choose him? What if all of his clients had their cases pending trial, or the number of cases he has won in the past can't determine how good a lawyer he really is?

Let’s get back to the point a little bit. Even if everyone were able to call himself or herself a priest, or an authorized representative of God with the priesthood, would you listen to someone just because he had lots and lots of people who went to him for guidance? Would you trust that person with your life? How would you know whether or not he spoke the truth? Would the number of people following his guidance have any influence on your decision to follow him? Would you be willing to wait until the Day of Judgment before finding out that you should have been listening to somebody else?

I thank God that His kingdom is a kingdom of order, and not of confusion. When God gives someone the priesthood, I can know whether or not that someone has authority by receiving a testimony from God, through the power of the Holy Ghost. I wouldn’t put my life in the hands of someone “claiming” to hold the priesthood any more than I will put my life in the hands of someone “claiming” to be a good lawyer, and there is no good reason I should.

Getting back to the point a little more…the point of having authorized servants of God on this Earth is to enable Man to establish the kingdom of God on this Earth. If Man isn’t authorized to act as God, he is only acting as Man, because Man can’t righteously assume to act as God unless God has given that authority to Man.

I hope I have now illustrated how silly it is to assume that Man can act as God simply because Man thinks he knows what God would do or how God would do it. Without the authority or power of God, Man is nothing more than Man.

[Guest Member_Deleted]

I don't believe I would call it blessed if a non- non- received some good things in this life... we are predestined to have certain things given to us in this life... no matter what we do or don't do.... it is what we do with it... and how we live our lives that will ultimately bring us 'blessings' over and above what we were to get before we did anything...

[Josie]

We are all blessed everyday of our lives. A person does not have to hold the Priesthood or be a Mormon to be blessed. The fact that we are on this earth with a body is a blessing. The air we breath, good health, food on the table is blessing. We have nothing that does not belong to God. He has given it to us to have a stewardship over and it is according to what we do with it, how he will judge us. We are only the steward over God's belongings.

A person can be unrighteous and still be blessed. But that does not mean he will not have to answer for what he has received.

I think some people are blessed to have anything at all on this earth, the way they act!!!!!!

[Guest Ari 2]

The way I understood the question, "Does God bless non-righteous, non-priesthood holders?", I would have to answer no...in my estimation, God does not bless the non-righteous. Does God bless non-priesthood holders? Yes. Maybe that should be a two part question.