{"id":19446,"date":"2015-04-10T10:14:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T16:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=19446"},"modified":"2015-04-10T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T16:14:35","slug":"a-mark-that-satan-cannot-give-love-for-the-lords-anointed-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/04\/a-mark-that-satan-cannot-give-love-for-the-lords-anointed-servants.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8216;A Mark that Satan Cannot Give&#8217;: Love for the Lord&#8217;s Anointed Servants&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19447\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/04\/640px-Wilford_Woodruff_1889.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19447\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/04\/640px-Wilford_Woodruff_1889-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"President Wilford Woodruff\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wilford Woodruff, circa 1889<br>One of the greatest diarists of <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormonism<\/a>, as well as an apostle and eventual president of the Church, he is a major eyewitness source for the history of Mormonism in the nineteenth century.<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s become acceptable, even fashionable, in certain ostensibly believing quarters of Mormondom, to condescend to, lament, criticize, and even oppose the men sustained by his Church as the Lord\u2019s prophets, seers, and revelators.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I cannot join in such things. \u00a0I find them abhorrent. \u00a0Certainly inappropriate. \u00a0Inconsistent with both the doctrine that I believe and the attitudes that, in my view, should characterize faithful Latter-day Saints.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here, on that theme, is a nice little piece by my friend and former Maxwell Institute colleague Matt Roper:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etherscave.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/a-mark-that-satan-cannot-give-love-for.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/etherscave.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/a-mark-that-satan-cannot-give-love-for.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 It\u2019s become acceptable, even fashionable, in certain ostensibly believing quarters of Mormondom, to condescend to, lament, criticize, and even oppose the men sustained by his Church as the Lord\u2019s prophets, seers, and revelators. \u00a0 I cannot join in such things. \u00a0I find them abhorrent. \u00a0Certainly inappropriate. \u00a0Inconsistent with both the doctrine that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;&#039;A Mark that Satan Cannot Give&#039;: Love for the Lord&#039;s Anointed Servants&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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