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Theological Case for Women & Priesthood (Part 4 of 8)

If I do say so myself, I think Dr. Margaret Toscano gives one of the most insightful discussions I have ever had on priesthood power.  This is really an amazing conversation, and then she asks why women should be denied priesthood blessings.  Whether you support female ordination or not, this is an amazing discussion you don’t want to miss. 

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Margaret:  God was going to do this. He was going to transform the role of women in the church. He [Joseph Smith] says to the Relief Society, and as I read through the speeches carefully, I saw several really important things, the idea that God was going to make the women a kingdom of priests, that was one of them. Another one was that the Relief Society and I hope I can remember the language of this one, that he wanted to organize the Relief Society in the order of the priesthood. Now, you have to realize that when this later, in the History of the Church, and this started to happen, in like the 1840s and 50s after Joseph’s death, where these phenomenal things that he said to the Relief Society in Nauvoo were changed. The wording was changed so that the priesthood implications of this were all switched, so that the language was, “Oh, it’s not to the women”. When you read the teachings of the Joseph Smith by Joseph Fielding Smith, the implication is that Joseph Smith is saying this to the Church, not to the women. The implication–and so when he says that the Relief Society is organized in the order of the priesthood, according to the order of the ancient priesthood, then it’s changed to they’re organized by the priesthood. I mean, that is significant. That is a very significant difference. It’s very interesting that—

GT:  Do we have a sense of who changed the wording, because I don’t think it was Joseph Fielding Smith, as old as he was.

Margaret: It was older than that. It probably, some of this started with George A. Smith in 1854.  Then B.H. Roberts–another thing that B.H. Roberts did is that Joseph Smith told the Relief Society, he said, “I turn the key to you.” That was then changed to, “I turn the key in your behalf. I’m going to get this picture because I want to show I an article that I did. This is really significant, this change. I’ve written tons about this.

What do you think?  Is Relief Society a quorum of priests? Check out our conversation…. 

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  • Date: February 13, 2020
  • Guest: Margaret Toscano
  • Theology: Feminism, LDS Priesthood, Theology, Women & Priesthood
  • Priesthood-Temple Restriction
  • Historical Mentions Mormon History
  • Tags: Church History, GT Podcast, iTunes
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