Comments on: Press Conference with Elder Andersen

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:34:58 +0000

That’s why apostles are expected to be unified. They are each individually a prophet, seer and revelator but they need to learn to act harmoniously together, then great things happen. That’s one of the reasons the revelation extending the priesthood to all worthy males came in 1978 and not earlier.

By: Antonio Parr

Antonio Parr — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:11:15 +0000

If each one is sustanined individually in these capacities, then that certainly makes it complicated during those Peter v. Paul, Orson v. Brigham-stype conflicts. One could be faced with the dilemma of sustaining (with equal vigor, I presume), two mutually exclusive propositions. For some reason, I thought that the histroy of sustaining the Twelve as “PS&R’s” had to do with their roles in selecting a successor President of the Church, an act so significant that the Twelve become, as a unified body, a Quorum of PS&R’s. I’ll have to go back and see if I can learn more about this.

(Apologies for the detour on the post. Seemed as good a place as any to ask . . . )

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:20:27 +0000

“When we sustain members of the Twelve in this capacity, are we stating that the collective Twelve, acting as a quorum, are prophets, seers and revelators, or are we saying that each individual member of the Twelve, acting alone, are acting as a prophet, seer and revelator?”

Each one individually is a prophet, seer and revelator.

By: Antonio Parr

Antonio Parr — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:17:49 +0000

I have a doctrinal question. I know that we sustain the President of the Church as ~the~ prophet, seer and revelator. I know, also, that we are asked to sustain members of the Quorum of the Twelve as “prophets, seers and revelators”. When we sustain members of the Twelve in this capacity, are we stating that the collective Twelve, acting as a quorum, are prophets, seers and revelators, or are we saying that each individual member of the Twelve, acting alone, are acting as a prophet, seer and revelator?

(I should know the answer to this, but am uncertain as to the official response . . . )

By: [nr]

[nr] — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:33:09 +0000

I should think Sister Andersen has had a fair amount of experience with interviews too. Maybe we sisters don’t give our fellow sisters enough credit.

By: Justmeherenow

Justmeherenow — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:15:20 +0000

Thanks Steve.

By: Steve Evans

Steve Evans — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:32:09 +0000

Justheremenow, they’re my photos but I’m fine with releasing them with proper attribution.

By: DavidH

DavidH — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:09:08 +0000

The last two press conferences I watched, I do not think wives of the newly called leaders were present. I do not think I watched the press conference when Elder Christopherson was called though–was his wife present? Did she say anything?

By: Kristine

Kristine — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:59:47 +0000

Yeah, jeans, I thought about directing a question to her, but I wasn’t sure how discomfiting she would have found that, and I didn’t want to unnerve her for the sake of making a point.

By: Justmeherenow

Justmeherenow — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:34:29 +0000

Kristine:

Are the images from BCC and/or Dialogue or from elsewhere? If the former, Could they be released under a CC SA (“Creative Commons Share-Alike”) license, allowing commercial use with credit given? (…Well, with the interest expressed here being toward use of the 3rd one on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_L._Andersen — since the current one there won’t last due to its All-Rights-Reserved copyright.) Thanks