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"Temporary commandments:" Top Latter-day Saint leader Dallin Oaks coins new phrase for Mormonism.
During The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' semi-annual General Conference in October, the faith's second-highest ranking leader, Dallin Oaks, introduced an intriguing new framework to members worldwide.
During The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' semi-annual General Conference in October, the faith's second-highest ranking leader, Dallin Oaks, introduced an intriguing new framework to members worldwide. He differentiated between "permanent commandments," summarized as "the doctrine of Christ," and "temporary commandments," defined as "necessary for the needs of the Lord's church ...
in temporary circumstances, but to be set aside when the need has passed." Oaks then provided examples of temporary commandments, including God's 19th-century directive for pioneer Saints to migrate…
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