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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
we don't need theologians in the church. we don't need philosophers.
we need revelators.
It's interesting that we view the apostasy as something being present, then very quickly falling from the church. The argument could be applied to the modern church: burst of revelation until Joseph Smith's death, and then very little since then.
I'm not saying that modern apostles aren't revelators. I'm saying the nature and quanity of revelations has appeared to change.
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I agree that we need revelators, but isn't it naive to state that revelation results in a vacuum.
Where is the training for revelation?
If you don't understand the revelatory process, how can you become a revelator? As you note, we had a burst of revelations through Joseph Smith and not the same as before.
Linguists and philosophers try to understand the nature of language and the process of knowledge and/or revelation. Without understanding the process, we may lose a lot in the translation.
Maxwell was an educator, as I remember, but last time I looked as Blue K has noted, he's not talking in GC. And btw, he was my favorite speaker for use of language.