Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: hall@vice.ico.tek.com (Hal Lillywhite) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: The Mormon Religion Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 90 07:01:04 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 17 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article timh@linus.uucp (Tim Hoogasian) writes: >now, you're telling us that (for instance) Apostle Bruce McConkie's >*very* interesting condemnation of the seeking of a personal relation- >ship with Christ, as a *heresy*, might not be necessarily "correct"? I suspect you're referring to a talk he gave at BYU, a church sponsored university. You have things a bit out of context. First, McConkie was responding to a specific situation - students (who were of course mostly LDS) forming "Jesus clubs" on campus. Second, if you read the entire talk you will find that what he was opposing was not a personnal relationship with Jesus but a "special relationship" to the exclusion of such a relationship with the Father or the Holy Ghost. In fact he goes on to condemn a relationship with either the Father or the Holy Spirit to the exclusion of the others. I think he was emphasizing that we believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, not just one of them.