Maybe these will help:EdGoble wrote:Respectfully Finrock, I disagree. You can do whatever you want. You are not free to choose the consequence. And there is always a consequence for sin. Doing things that have a certain gravity, or weightiness attached to them before their time, before the keys of the priesthood have opened the way for them, is a sin. That is my view. We aren't talking about a choice about whether you provide green jello and funeral potatoes at a funeral in your ward. We are talking about a fundamental shift in the operations of the economy of the kingdom of God, where someone wants to do it without direction, without institutional revelation and without commandment.Finrock wrote:I know you weren't asking me but here is my answer to the question:EdGoble wrote:
Why do you want to do something contrary to the current social order in the Church, without commandment or revelation, running before you are sent?
Because we are sovereign and God has made us free. Its a short answer, but think about it for a while and it will get longer.
-Finrock
Doctrine and Covenants 58:27,28
27 Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness;
28 For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward.
Mosiah 18:28
28 And thus they should impart of their substance of their own free will and good desires towards God, and to those priests that stood in need, yea, and to every needy, naked soul.
TG Dedication; Diligence; Good Works; Industry; Zeal.