Talking points

• Spencer Kimball taught that the only repentance which brings forgiveness requires a permanent and successful abandonment of sin.
• This repentance is by nature something not repeatable. The forgiveness that it conceivably brings is likewise not repeatable.
• This paradigm for repentance and forgiveness contributes to the pressure of perfectionism, since only permanently keeping all the commandments guarantees total forgiveness of sins.
• BYU professors have chided Mormons for believing what their own leaders have taught, and promote instead a softer view of a repeatable repentance which brings repeatable forgiveness.
• Instead of attributing unwanted views to Mormon prophets and apostles, BYU professors blame theological problems on Mormon lay culture. This form of deflection demonstrates a lack of integrity.