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I have heard relatives say how inspired the prophet is to have brought about Home centered gospel study emphasis just when it was really needed, forgetting that this was supposed to be the GC to top all GCs. Oh well. We are told Satan will be bound for a thousand years (during the Millennium). What reawakens him. Ok, wrong words, what unleashes him? Actually I forget the actual phrase, but the idea is that people will let evil creep into their lives – without Satan. In the future, at least, Satan will not be necessary for evil to exist. Good enough reason for me to think he is not a necessary ‘Father of Lies’ today. Further complicating Satan’s role is our creation story that says our world only became possible because Eve and Adam detected some truth in what Satan said. Satan also provided (provides) the sorrow, pain and sin that is the grist to happiness, health and virtue, which otherwise would not exist. In other words, everything has its opposite.
Sorry this may not be terribly relevant. I remember right after the revelation granting black people the priesthood the Church News editorial (Mconkie, I believe) was about the folly of interracial marriage. I don’t remember how often or long such counsel persisted, or even that it did publicly. But there was obviously concern by some about controlling the long term impact of the shift. Now interracial marriages may not be overtly encouraged but neither is it overtly, publicly discouraged. I think given time some sort of hybrid wedding will evolve for many. It will be interesting to see what the definitions of simple and extravagant become. I will at some point formally introduce myself. For now I just wonder about Oaks and his preaching against worldly knowledge and alternate voices and whether his refrain in this direction is some kind of penance for being on the board of Dialogue, A Journal of Mormon Thought (might have the name wrong) back in the 60’s. It seems to be a topic he comes back to often. .
