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Originally Posted by jay santos
I look at sorting through some of these early church quotes/teachings like a Bayesian optimization problem. You plug in all the data, which includes the scriptures, the other teachings of the early church, and the teachings today. There's no exact fit. But there's an optimization that creates the most likely view of correct doctrine.
My accepted view is to completely reject some of the early church statements, like this one, and write it off with the explanation that they were hitting and missing on what they were receiving as pure revelation from God, which God has since helped them straighten out.
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My goal in this instance is to get a better sense of Joseph's views, and how they changed, and how they interacted with other teachings at the time.