thread: 2007-03-02 : God Q&A
On 2007-03-02, Vincent wrote:
Larry Lade: I was trained by my dad, not by any program within the church. The ordination to priesthood authority is something that every faithful 18-year-old Mormon boy gets, pretty much. Sometimes you wait until you're 19, sometimes there are other circumstances, I dunno. All my peers and I were 18.
It includes the authority to cast out devils, as a minor component of a whole suite of authorities. Actually using your authority to cast out devils isn't fashionable in the mainstream church any more, but my dad dug it.
So I didn't have any different position than my peers did, I'd just been raised with a different take on the position than they had.
