Like, all they had to say was, this guy's a Mormon, and people would be like, oh.

Scandal.

Oh, yeah, there's no way this guy can be let in.

That's precisely what drove the prophet to his knees again and again.

They live in time and space with the rest of us, and they receive revelations based on the

circumstances in which they find themselves and their people.

That's how it works. Circumstances causes to ask the Lord, and then the Lord gives us revelations.

It shows the danger of isolating one verse of scripture and then generalizing that to cover all circumstances.

And the environment around us directs the prophets to receive the revelations that they do

and often come in response

to the serious questions they were dealing with. Hello, Scott. Hello, Casey. We are near the

end of the doctrine in covenants, which it feels like everything we've been talking about has

been getting juicier and juicier. The closer, like we we just, we just pack the end with all the controversial stuff.

And you and I love to discuss controversies.

So this is, this is fun for us.

Like a couple moths to the flame.

We are drawn to controversy.

And boy, do we have some controversies today.

That might be the best analogy.

Yeah, literally we're dealing with the two most controversial things in church history, which is plural marriage and race and the priesthood.

There should be no trepidation discussing these things.

We need to talk about them.

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