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 | Wednesday, Jul 13, 2005, at 07:53 AM False Prophecy by Elder Henry B. Eyring, "Prophet, Seer and Revelator" Indeed Original Author(s): Anonymous HENRY B. EYRING -Guid- | ↑ |
| While on my mission in Europe, my mission president was called to a mission presidents' seminar (I believe held in Germany in 1998, could have been '97) where Elder Eyring presided and instructed the mission presidents on how to make us better missionaries. After the seminar, we had a mission conference where our mission president related to us something that Elder Eyring had said while instructing them.
The work in Europe has been slow for most of the time the church has been there, and my time there was no different. So the mission presidents were pressing Elder Eyring for insights into how they could increase the productivity in their missions. My mission president, in all solemnity, then related to us Elder Eyring's response. The apostle said that the Lord was preparing the Continent of Europe to be shaken at its roots (the wording might be a bit off here, this was almost a decade ago, but the meaning is accurate), and that there would come a time where the people of Europe would be struck to humility and the floodgates would open for missionary work. The mission presidents were impressed by this obviously powerful prophecy, and asked Elder Eyring when they could expect this marvelous work and wonder to begin. Putting his hands together in deep thought, and opening his heart to the whisperings from on high, Elder Eyring replied, "Within two years." I remember when our mission president told us that, we were so grateful to hear that the work would explode there, and perhaps seeds that we had planted would sprout into mighty oak trees. We all speculated what the great calamity would be that would befall the helpless Europeans. I hypothesized that the introduction of the Euro as the common currency in Europe would cause the banks to fail and throw Europe into a great depression. Well, here we are in 2005, seven or eight years later, and maybe I missed the news report, but I don't believe the work there has picked up at all. On the contrary, I would wager the opposite has occurred. No catastrophic depression, no earthquake, no prophecy fulfilled. I would love to know if any of those mission presidents ran into Elder Eyring later and called him on it. I know my mission president would have had the opportunity. But I am sure he rationalized it away in his head, just like everything else in this church that has fallen flat on its face. |
| | Sunday, Apr 6, 2008, at 08:19 AM Again With The "We Are The Only Truth Church" Original Author(s): Infymus HENRY B. EYRING -Guid- | ↑ |
On Saturday April 5th, 2008 conference, Henry B. Eyring stated:
"This is the true church, the only true church because it has the keys of the priesthood."Once again the Mormon Cult proclaims it is the one and only truth on the face of the earth. Shall we bring out the Mormon scripture that states all other religions are the "Whores of the earth"? |
| | Friday, Apr 10, 2009, at 01:47 PM Eyrings' Article "Teaching True Doctrine" Original Author(s): Goldarn HENRY B. EYRING -Guid- | ↑ |
A wise parent would never miss a chance to gather children together to learn of the doctrine of Jesus Christ. Such moments are so rare in comparison with the efforts of the enemy. For every hour the power of doctrine is introduced into a child’s life, there may be hundreds of hours of messages and images denying or ignoring the saving truths.No, the real question is, why does he believe it's an either-or thing? You can't have fun with your children sometimes, and preach other times? You can't offer a one-sentence message of the Truth while driving to someplace? To me, this article tries to accomplish the following common mormon goals: (1) Making the parents feel guilty about not preaching enough, with the risk of losing their children forever. (2) Making the children feel guilty about trying to avoid preachy parents, because they were only doing it out of love and for their Own Good. (3) Make grown children feel really bad about all the times they didn't want to listen to preachiness (skipping FHE, avoiding parents on Sunday, etc). Guilt leads to repentance, repentance leads to church-approved actions, those actions include paying tithing, which leads to people like Eyring being paid to give people guilt. Everyone sing with me... "It's the circle of life!" |
| | Wednesday, Oct 7, 2009, at 09:01 AM A Charming Story About Henry B Original Author(s): elphaba HENRY B. EYRING -Guid- | ↑ |
| Given the fact that he spoke this morning about what we need to do to make it to the CK, I thought I would share a special memory about Henry B. Eyring with you...
Henry Eyring was the visiting leader to our stake 20 plus years ago. I was dating the son of my SP at the time. This stake included my university ward so you can imagine how excited we were to have such an intellectual giant preside over our stake conference. I was especially looking forward to the Sunday afternoon lunch after conference when I could have some face time with Eyring at the SP's house. After a very pleasant lunch where the majority of the conversation centered on church related stories and his time as an associate professor at Stanford, we retired to the living room for dessert. Eyring was so well spoken with a great sense of humor and an entertaining story telling facility. He was much more charming in person than his pulpit persona. After talking to him over lunch my esteem for him only increased. (I would often look to people like him and think, "If one as intelligent as Eyring can have a testimony, it must be true." ) After the dessert plates were cleared, Eyring felt comfortable enough with us to share a bit more about "The Kingdom." In shocking candor he explained, "You know, very few people will actually make it." We all had a perplexed look on our faces. He added, "to the Celestial Kingdom. Of course, we can't tell that to the general population because that would only discourage the members. We need to keep them going." I sat there speechless. I will never forget the arrogance with which he made that declaration. That experience was one of the first major cracks in my testimony armor. I felt like we were being duped by leadership in Utah and I felt very betrayed. My quotes are loose but not too loose. I might be off by a word or two but I replayed what he said many times in my head because it was such a seminal moment for me. |