Insights and discussions from searching the scriptures while incorporating LDS church history.Read more »
Insights and discussions from searching the scriptures while incorporating LDS church history.Read Less
Mormonism has a complicated relationship with paying church leaders. We have scriptures that condemn priestcrafts and the Church has often bragged about not having a paid clergy. Yet the church also defends paying Church leaders a “living stipend”. This episode searches out what the scriptures have to say, a reveals that the D&C commands that some leaders be paid while others must not be paid…the only problem is today’s Church does the exact opposite!
2 Nephi 26:29-31
D&C 105:5
Numbers 18:
Luke 9:1-6
Matthew 10:5-11
Acts 3:1-9
Luke 10:1-9
1 Timothy 6:8
Acts 18:1-4
1 Corinthians 9:1-18
Mosiah 18:24-28
Mosiah 27:5
Alma 1:26
Alma 30:32-34
Alma 31:35-38
Alma 8:19-21
3 Nephi 13:25-34
D&C 24:18
D&C 84:77-91
D&C 70:12-14
D&C 107:68
Lectures on Faith 6:7
HC 2:300
D&C 42:71-73