Regarding the LDS Family Proclamation:
The statement on gender was not LDS doctrine before 1995 and NO revelation from God exists that declares this. In fact it conflicts with existing doctrine.
When he introduced the Family Proclamation to the church, Gordon Hinckley stated it was a “reaffirmation of standards, doctrines, and practices… which the prophets, seers, and revelators of the church have repeatedly stated throughout its history”
Dallin Oaks re-confirmed the proclamation was a “reemphasis” and “restatement” of “gospel truths”
But if the Family Proclamation is a reaffirmation of doctrines, where are those original declarations of the eternal gender doctrine?
Answer: Those declarations don’t exist.
#LDS doctrine posits we were “intelligences” before becoming spirits in a pre-mortal life. BUT “the question whether prespirit intelligence had individual identity and consciousness is unanswered.”
Joseph Fielding Smith wrote the following and this is where the LDS doctrine of intelligences stands today:
“.. our writers have endeavored to explain what an intelligence is, but to do so is futile”
JFS’s teachings on post-mortal life also conflict with the concept of eternal gender:
“…men and women will, in these kingdoms, be …neither man nor woman.”
The TK Smoothie doctrine puts the kibosh on the idea of unfettered fornication in the Terrestrial and Telestial kingdom.
The proclamation’s claim that eternal gender is essential and tied to eternal identity or purpose does not match with existing #LDS teachings on pre or post mortal life as well as the reality of mortal life.
Clearly the Family Proclamation claim that "gender is eternal" is not a reiteration of previous doctrine.
Because it CAN’T be linked to God, it must be philosophy of men.
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