Post Date: 15th Aug, 2010 - 6:17pm / Post ID:
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You Go To 'Hell' If You Criticize Mormon Leaders
I was reading some talks on lds.org and I came across this YW lesson with a couple of interesting quotes with regards to local leaders:
QUOTE Parents have a responsibility to teach their children to sustain and support their local priesthood leaders. They should never criticize priesthood leaders or say unkind things about them. Criticizing our leaders endangers our own salvation.
QUOTE The men who hold the Priesthood are but mortal men; they are fallible men. "¦Â
"Nevertheless, God has chosen these men. He has singled them out. They have not done it themselves; but He has selected them, and He has placed upon them the authority of the Holy Priesthood, and they have become His representatives in the earth. "¦Â
"And those who lift their voices "¦ against the authority of the Holy Priesthood "¦ will go down to hell, unless they repent" (George Q. Cannon, Gospel Truth, sel. Jerreld L. Newquist, 2nd ed., 2 vols. [1974], 1:276).