Knowing the Bible doesn’t seem to help much.

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/273505/149/

A Las Vegas man who was the creative brains behind a calendar that features shirtless Mormon missionaries is facing a disciplinary hearing and possible excommunication for the project.

Not anymore.

The billboard now has a silhouette of a person with a question mark in the middle, and the text on the billboard says something to the effect of “We need a new face! Nominate somebody today!”.

Should you care, you can nominate Kirby’s successor on their website.

Guess they didn’t want to have to photoshop Kirby with a Miller Lite bottle…

I’m not sure about everything that goes on with KSL, but I do know that KSL is owned by Bonneville International, which in turn is owned by the LDS faith. Bonneville owns about 30 different media stations, and I’m sure the First Presidency doesn’t force those in charge of the stations to air what they want. For all we know the First Presidency might have a very limited say in what KSL airs on TV. All I know is this, the First Presidency is made up of men who are righteous men who recieve revelation from God, and would never do anything to lead the church astray. I end with a quote from the late Gordon B. Hinkley, former prophet of the church: “The priesthood is among us. It is real. It is powerful. It is true. The spirit of revelation is among us. I want to give you my testimony that the Lord will not permit any man to lead His church astray. His are the powers of life and death. It is His church, not the church of any man.”

This I firmly know to be true through the power of the Lord’s love and spirit. Not because I took a man’s word for it.

Leaders don’t tell us we are worthy for the temple, we have to decide that for ourselves & tell them if we are or not, hopefully being honest with ourselves. So I wouldn’t say this incident wouldn’t keep him out of the temple. But he must decide that for himself.

I appreciate the fact the Brother and Sister Heyborne made their decision about the job a matter of prayer. Unfortunately, his interview makes it sound as if financial need justified the decision to promote the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages — something he says he absolutely does not condone. Actions speak louder than words. What would he think of a soldier that willingly participates in a recruiting video for the enemy forces? The it’s-just-a-job line simply doesn’t cut it.

I have done things of which I have needed to repent, but which did not technically prevent me from getting a Temple recommend. I have arrogantly tried to justify my actions. Let me just say from personal experience that such a path leads to sorrow rather than to the happiness you hope to find there.

The rock of your beliefs is based purely and solely on “revelation.” How convenient is that?

If you truly believe in the Bible, as you claim, then your rock is founded on the same principle.

How convenient is that? If the basis of revelation is that strong, what is to stop one of the prophets from saying “God wants the LDS to practice polygamy again?

What stopped the prophets from doing so in the Bible?

It appears to me that the LDS has elevated themselves to the top of the Christianity ladder and no one else is even being allowed to stand on the bottom step of the ladder.

Did the early Christians elevate themselves to the top of the Judaic ladder?

“God wants the LDS to practice polygamy again?”
If that happened, I would consider leaving.

“Maybe God wants all Muslims vanquished?”
If that happened, I would definitely leave.

“God will instruct the prophets to say SUV’s should not be driven”
I think that is a good idea, and I would testify of it next month in fast meeting, lol.

“Mainstream Christianity” is a farce of a term if ever there was one. To refer to a collective group implies a common belief, but with all the flavors of Christianity existing today, you’d be hard-pressed to find two congregations that believe the same thing, even based on the same scriptures.

I’ve never claimed that God’s revelation to abstain from alcohol is found within the Bible. Just as the Bible was modern revelation to those who lived at the time, so too is current modern revelation given to those who live right now. No doubt you’ll have a fundamental disagreement with the issue of modern revelation, but the argument for the Word of Wisdom is based upon the belief that God speaks to man today.

The Bible is a history of revelation, and it’s great. But while certain prophecies contained therein apply to our own day, the majority of its writings were specific to those to whom they were addressed. I believe that God speaks, through appointed messengers, to His children whenever they will listen. And so any succeeding prophecy given or scripture created does not—and indeed, must not—rely upon previous revelation to justify its authority.

God’s authority implies that He can change his will (and commandments) as He sees fit.

There is not one anti-LDS word to be found.

Not one anti-LDS word to be found? So disparaging an entire belief system (categorically separating it from a general definition of Christianity), or claiming that “The Father in Heaven” is different from the one we Latter-day Saints worship, or claiming that we’ve “rewritten” many parts of the “traditional” Bible is not to be considered “anti”. Right.

I noticed that you didnt have the stones to agree or disagree with the story contained in the Bible.

Ah, “stones to agree”. Words of a dignified debater, surely.

I have no problem with the Biblical story, or Jesus’ consumption of wine. God has never said that drinking alcohol throughout history is sinful, but instead has commanded his Latter-say Saints to abstain, “in consequence of evils and designs which do and will exist in the hearts of conspiring men in the last days”. That’s the idea behind continuing revelation—God’s will changes based on varying circumstances and situations.

Im sure you will duck this question or you will delete it.

Strike one for accuracy in your predictive capabilities.