[Traveler]

Originally Posted by prisonchaplain

I'm in agreement with Anthony that denominations may be God's Babel for the church. By allowing us to be diverse in human organization, we are forced to seek our broad unity in Christ, rather than unifying ourselves under human leadership, which could lead to spiritual rebellion against God.

Note that I am not endorsing contention, hatred, divisiveness that is bitter, but rather, I'm agreeing that our unity is in the person of Christ, and that God forsaw the difficulties of uniting humans organizationally, and may well have ordained denominations as a means of uniting groups, without allowing for the corruption that one grand human organization might have been prone to.

Lord Acton was right--absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I am not against the concept that the ancient church was divided - each with important parts but lacking fullness without the others. This is how I see the religions of our era. It may surprise you to know that I believe that there are likely truths in other faith that need to be learned by the LDS. I do not believe that all that is necessary has been restored to the LDS yet but I believe it will be.

I believe that the work or "gathering" will and has begun to take place and that at some point those that gather to accept the return of the Christ will not be divided into denominations or religions. I do not think the faithful Jews, Muslims, Hindu, Christians and Buddhist will divide themselves. But as near as I can determine the LDS are the only possibility of the organization of the kingdom that is necessary for the return of the King.

The Traveler

BTW the only absolute power that I believe exist - is G-d. The others are pretenders and pretending is and always will be corruption - no exceptions.