Viviparous is a fancy-schmancy word that I would not know if it weren’t for GeoffJ.
Not long ago I wrote a post about being a literal child of God. Jeff Lindsay wrote a post that expresses this same thought using the main two scriptures I had used. I have also recently read ‘The Philosophical Basis of [...]
An aspect of the life of Christ that has caused me to marvel is the sinless life that he lead. That astounds me. Contemplating anyone surviving their entire lives without being guilty of sin to any degree stretches the limits of my imagination. Did he really accomplish such an impressive thing as a sinless life?
What should one do if they receive some clear, specific, and unique doctrinal personal revelation? This has never happened for me, and I am not really expecting anyone to share anything along those lines, but what would you do?
I feel that I have received personal revelation, but I would not describe it as being doctrinally [...]
There have been many posts regarding the supposed contradiction between the absolute foreknowledge of God, and true free will. We have even discussed that here once. But this is not my purpose in this post. I think we can all agree that God has at the very least an amazing amount of foreknowledge about the [...]
Our tenth article of faith contains the phrase:
that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent;
In compliance with the Lord’s command in Section 52 of the Doctrine and Covenants the elders of the church traveled from Kirtland to Missouri. After they arrived the prophet Joseph Smith received a revelation which is Section [...]
I am a literal spirit offspring of God.
And He, as my literal spirit parent, has sent me here.
Has given me an earthly home,
With parents, who are literally my spirit siblings, kind and dear.
Lead me, guide me, walk beside me,
Help me find the way.
Teach me all that I must become,
To be a glorified and exalted being, [...]
I recently purchased a book called, ‘The Vitality of Mormonism’ by James E. Talmage. The book is a collection of essays that explore the key principles and doctrines of the church. It will likely be a source of posts for me over the next few weeks.
One essay that caught my eye was, ‘Divine Command and [...]
It is a common thing to say, “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”, or ‘he is very set in his ways’. These phrases may be most likely applied to older people, like High Priests. What these statements imply is that the older you get the less likely you are to change. Is this [...]
The Fulness of the Gospel series for this month is ‘The Purpose of Life’. The first paragraph rightly states that we must first understand who we are. It then boldly declares that ‘we are literal spirit children of God, that we lived with him in a premortal existence, and that we have within us the [...]
The Fullness of the Gospel Series this month is called ‘Putting Off the Natural Man’. Another good one, I would like to provide my regular review, with a bit of a twist.
First the article makes mention of the various general philosophies of human nature. The three are:
1 - people are basically good.
2 - they are [...]
