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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski
Well that kind of hand-waving doesn't work for everyone. So the missionaries end up learning folklore from other missionaries (mark of Cain, JS didn't practice polygamy, etc.) and they pass that on to the investigators. With a minor amount of research some investigators then provide the missionaries evidence that said folklore is wrong. Missionaries then think that they have been misled by their own church. It becomes an awkward and tortuous process when it certainly doesn't have to be. It's hard to argue that it is a faith-promoting process.
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Um, no,
that process isn't faith promoting. But I think it's also quite rare.
Many missionaries these days struggle just to know their Book of Mormon and New Testament scriptures, much less some obscure facts about church history that happened a decade or a century before they were even born.
Trying to education missionaries on the plethora of potential church criticisms they
might encounter is one easy way to confuse them and ruin the work, IMO. Teach them the foundations doctrines, help them find their testimony, and send them out to preach the gospel.
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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski
One of two parts of that interview where he was obfuscating at best, dishonest at worst. Ironic that you would find that a wonderful answer.
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Ha! You people really need to get a grip. That is neither obfuscating nor dishonesty. All he's saying is, "I don't want to talk about it because it is neither important nor relevant." And man, is he ever right.