President Russel M. Nelson said this back at Conference in October 2020. I believed it then, and I believe it now.
I've tried to work past my prejudices, to accept that all are God's children, and that we should, as he called for in his address, to "let God prevail."
So I was saddened today to read not just a few comments on this Church News story about saints in Ghana opening their churches to their Muslim neighbors, giving them a safe place to gather for Ramadan.
We either sustain President Nelson as a prophet, or we don't. Making statements that contradict his statements is wrong.
More importantly, we believe that Jesus is the Christ, or we don't. Making statements that contradict his statements is very wrong.
Luke 10:25, for a start.
Then Matthew 5, lingering in particular on verse 43:
43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your benemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
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