Heed and Diligence

What I say in this material is my own personal enlightenment through the scriptures and what I have been provided through the Spirit to the mind of God as I have pondered prayed and sought to understand his will in relation to these subjects.

This Blog is a look at the current events through the Gospel of Jesus Christ from that which is true and restored and that which is to come. It is directed to anyone in any of the Mormon or Restoration Religions.

Micah Spicer

Secret works and money

The LDS church was fined $5 Million dollars for hiding a portfolio implemented to get gain. The reason for the fine was its attempt to conceal it from the Government, general public and church membership. The article mentions that $32 Billion was concealed of a total of $100 Billion.

The news article can be found here.

Mormon church fined $5M for obscuring size of portfolio – ABC News (go.com)

When this originally came out. An official said they didnt want the members to know because they feared they might stop tithing.

There are a couple glaring things about what happened.

  1. They lied about their holdings and did not disclose them to the membership or the Government.
  2. They sought to hide their counsel.
  3. They teach after vain and foolish doctrines trusting in the dictates of their own conscience 
  4. They sought to hide these things being puffed up in their pride

This reminds me of a certain passage from Nephi which says the following.

“And there shall also be many which shall say: Eat, drink, and be merry; nevertheless, fear God—he will justify in committing a little sin; yea, lie a little, take the advantage of one because of his words, dig a pit for thy neighbor; there is no harm in this; and do all these things, for tomorrow we die; and if it so be that we are guilty, God will beat us with a few stripes, and at last we shall be saved in the kingdom of God.

Yea, and there shall be many which shall teach after this manner, false and vain and foolish doctrines, and shall be puffed up in their hearts, and shall seek deep to hide their counsels from the Lord; and their works shall be in the dark.” (2 Nephi 28:8-9)

“Because of pride, and because of false teachers, and false doctrine, their churches have become corrupted, and their churches are lifted up; because of pride they are puffed up.

They rob the poor because of their fine sanctuaries; they rob the poor because of their fine clothing; and they persecute the meek and the poor in heart, because in their pride they are puffed up.” (2 Nephi 28:12-13)

Heedanddiligence

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