Item Detail
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28336
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7
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2
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English
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LDS Women and
Priesthood : Scriptural Precedents for Priesthood -
Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 1985
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18
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3
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Stanford, CA
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Dialogue Foundation
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15-20
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I have heard many LDS women approach the issue of women and the priesthood by protesting that they do not want to hold the priesthood because they have no interest in passing the sacrament or performing some other ecclesiastical duty. I will venture a guess that many men who have the priesthood do not particularly want to hold it either, and that some of them also have no interest in passing the sacrament. But the reluctance of some men would hardly be a good reason to prevent all men from holding the priesthood. Rather than asking, "Do I want to hold the priesthood?" women and men should approach the issue by asking, "Does denying the priesthood to women reflect God's eternal will?" Let me approach this question by looking at priesthood in LDS scriptures including those it accepts with the larger Judeo-Christian community, the Old and New Testaments. [From the text]
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