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FreeState

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32. The weird thing is the teaching has changed but not via the Prophet

Reply to Ilsa (Reply #22)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 06:41 PM

Mar 2014

Never mind their teachings are eternal and unchanging, but the only way for doctrine to change in the Church is for the Prophet to have a revelation about it. That did not happen here, its all BS marketing.

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