Mormon Church Clarifies Its Stance on Caffeinated Drinks. Wonder What Prompted This Exactly?

[Taiko]

Originally Posted by Drover

How exactly is this topic political or controversial?

When someone claims divine inspiration of the truth seems to change course, as if God changed his mind it becomes controversial as non believers in that particular faith use the apparent change of course as a line of attack.

[11thHour]

Originally Posted by HoneyWest

According to Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, the Word of Wisdom was received in 1833 as a revelation from God. After Smith's death, Brigham Young stated that the revelation was given in response to problems encountered while conducting meetings in the Smith family home:

When they assembled together in this room after breakfast, the first they did was to light their pipes, and, while smoking, talk about the great things of the kingdom, and spit all over the room, and as soon as the pipe was out of their mouths a large chew of tobacco would then be taken. Often when the Prophet [Joseph Smith] entered the room to give the school instructions he would find himself in a cloud of tobacco smoke. This, and the complaints of his wife at having to clean so filthy a floor, made the Prophet think upon the matter, and he inquired of the Lord relating to the conduct of the Elders in using tobacco, and the revelation known as the Word of Wisdom was the result of his inquiry.[4]

The Word of Wisdom was first published as a stand-alone broadsheet in December 1833. In 1835, it was included as Section LXXX[5] in the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_Wisdom

You resurrected an 8 year old thread to post this? Why? What was your line of thinking?

[HoneyWest]

Seems the rhyme, reason and rule$ change as time goes by

[ReineDeCoeur]

Interesting. I had no idea they had any stances on health. They aren’t the only Christian denomination that does but the majority do not.