Brigham Young on the Attributes of Deity

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

I am interested in thoughts, questions, possibilities, you name it. I find Brigham Young paradoxical--sometimes he says things that I find insightful. Other times he says things that leave me wondering if he hadn't just hit his head.

In this instance (and fairly often, really) I just didn't want the post to be about my views. I like the idea of reading one of Brigham Young's ruminations and seeing where we can run with it. At the moment I'm particularly interested in some of the Godhead issues as I'm exploring the whole Holy Spirit as wind thing, the Paraclete passages, Lectures on Faith, and so on.

I am not a Ute, although I don't have anything against Utes (other than I want the Cougars to defeat them on the field). They are fun rivals.

It would be beneficial to some of us if we could interview apostles and prophets in a manner where, like unto the school of the prophets, they would pontificate and espouse concepts without worrying if they were wrong, in fact, dare to be right or wrong.

It seems that the efforts of current PR are to fit all findings into one neat little box, excluding all others. Of course, even this characterization is oversimplified. However, it probably is more effective in controlling a large dispersed membership that expecting all to handle the subject matter academically.

For the most part, the bulk of membership, that remains active and contributes, is mostly happy to have some general guidelines, even if they are of fundamentalist nature, because that's what adds value to them. And perhaps that's the value for the current leadership. The rhetoric is really irrelevant, just the value added to most rank and file members. If borderlanders don't find as much value in that, then in a way that's too bad, because if we borderlanders can't divine our own value, then we're not as smart as we think we are. Our challenge in finding value is that neither leadership nor the general membership and especially not the fundamentalists will provide value in our associations, we must find it ourselves or be living a life without meaning. Borderlanders are not better or smarter, but we have difficulty in finding value and there are none to assist us.