I've gone through my pdf of Words of Joseph Smith and most if not all of the time the term keys are used in a way that pertains to knowledge or revelation.
In one of Fred Colliers pamphlets, I think addressing Independent Fundamentalism, he gives the rebuttal that if keys were merely knowledge or revelation than even apostates would hold the keys of the Priesthood, which is fair logic. I'd be curious to see if you have a nuance to that or a rebuttal.
without an informal study, that has been my conclusion as well. However, i I think I’m a new book. I have a couple quotes that suggest that you only receive certain light and knowledge after receiving the priesthood, which adds another nuance and dimension to his usage of the word keys. I think the end of the day, he uses the word in multiple different ways. He uses other words and multiple different ways, and we just have to read into his patterns which he intends in a given passage.
Joseph Smith once said the keys of the Kingdom consist in obtaining the voice of Jehovah and knowing how to converse with him in a friendly manner, etc.
There's definitely something here, its something I want to study
I have found him using the term keys in several different instances, meeting slightly different things. Now that the book is finished of his unpublished teachings, I should do a exhaustive study of that and compare it to TPJS.
I've gone through my pdf of Words of Joseph Smith and most if not all of the time the term keys are used in a way that pertains to knowledge or revelation.
In one of Fred Colliers pamphlets, I think addressing Independent Fundamentalism, he gives the rebuttal that if keys were merely knowledge or revelation than even apostates would hold the keys of the Priesthood, which is fair logic. I'd be curious to see if you have a nuance to that or a rebuttal.
without an informal study, that has been my conclusion as well. However, i I think I’m a new book. I have a couple quotes that suggest that you only receive certain light and knowledge after receiving the priesthood, which adds another nuance and dimension to his usage of the word keys. I think the end of the day, he uses the word in multiple different ways. He uses other words and multiple different ways, and we just have to read into his patterns which he intends in a given passage.
Joseph Smith once said the keys of the Kingdom consist in obtaining the voice of Jehovah and knowing how to converse with him in a friendly manner, etc.
There's definitely something here, its something I want to study
I have found him using the term keys in several different instances, meeting slightly different things. Now that the book is finished of his unpublished teachings, I should do a exhaustive study of that and compare it to TPJS.