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It was inappropriate for me to teach that temple ordinances, specifically the use of altars, should be practiced outside of the temple. It was inappropriate for me to teach that persons should seek to be translate or to receive an ordinance of translation and become members of the 144,000 spoken of in scripture. The doctrines of the Second Comforter, calling and election made sure, translation, and the calling of the 144,000 are among those specific sacred concepts that should have been spoken with more care and by constraint of the Spirit….
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He was never under any threat of disciplinary action as far as I can tell, but priesthood leaders found several of his teachings “inappropriate.” To his credit, Stroud clearly identified those teachings in his final podcast, published November 5th. Stroud’s initial run of podcasts began in February 2016 and ended in November 2017. My view was that Brother Stroud’s longtime service in the Church Educational System (27 years as a seminary teacher) gave him significant institutional credibility, but he was pushing more fringe teachings of latter-day gnostics (like Denver Snuffer) and end-times visionaries (like Spencer from the book Visions of Glory).
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I first wrote about Mike Stroud in September 2017, several months after I’d been introduced to his podcasts by a wardmember. Nelson, and deity, Brother Stroud announced he’d been excommunicated for apostasy. After bearing a heartfelt testimony of the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Russell M. On February 14th, podcaster Mike Stroud dropped a bombshell.