https://askgramps.org/how-can-one-perform-an-ordinance-they-have-not-yet-received-themselves/ Moral answers to everyday concerns, curiosities, and uncertainties. Gramps considers all questions on all topics from all sources. Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:15:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://askgramps.org/how-can-one-perform-an-ordinance-they-have-not-yet-received-themselves/#comment-34474 Sat, 31 Oct 2015 04:25:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=33395#comment-34474 While most stake presidents may have been bishops, there’re probably quite a few that haven’t, yet they’re calling and ordaining bishops.

]]> https://askgramps.org/how-can-one-perform-an-ordinance-they-have-not-yet-received-themselves/#comment-34473 Sat, 31 Oct 2015 02:18:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=33395#comment-34473 John the Baptist CONFERRED the Aaronic Priesthood on Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery. That gave them the keys. Afterwards, they ORDAINED each other to the office of Priest within that priesthood. Big difference.

]]> https://askgramps.org/how-can-one-perform-an-ordinance-they-have-not-yet-received-themselves/#comment-34471 Fri, 30 Oct 2015 12:41:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=33395#comment-34471 Nice answer. It is interesting how the delegation of keys have changed someone over time, with members of the Seventy now setting apart Stake Presidents, and Stake Presidents ordaining Patriarchs. FYI – Joseph Fielding Smith explained Alma baptizing Helam a little bit differently than what you represent here, as found in the Book of Mormon Study Manual (https://www.lds.org/manual/book-of-mormon-student-study-guide/mosiah-17-18?lang=eng) quoting JFS’s Answers to Gosepel Questions “When Alma baptized himself with Helam that was not a case of Alma baptizing himself, but merely as a token [sign] to the Lord of his humility and full repentance”

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