Friday, October 19, 2018

Bees and Beehives among the Ancient Maya

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Some critics of the Book of Mormon argue that its mention of bees is an anachronism, as there were no bees in Mesoamerica during the time ...

Jennifer Marie Creamer and D. Charles Pyle on Jeremiah 10:11

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Thus shall you say to them: Let the gods, who did not make heaven and earth, perish from the earth and from under these heavens. (Jer 1...

God's Knowledge of counterfactuals and contingent foreknowledge in D&C 5:26-35

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While reading section 5 of the Doctrine and Covenants this morning,  the following passage stood out to me: And I the Lord command him...

Amos Pettengill (1826) on the plurality of inhabited planets

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Writing in 1826, Amos Pettengill affirmed, based, in part, on the biblical witness, that other planets have been, and are, inhabited, albe...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Nels L. Nelson on Soteriology

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Writing in 1904, long before the Church tried to become more mainstream according to many misinformed critics, we read the following by a ...

Nels L. Nelson's appeal to angelic mediation to explain how God hears prayers

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Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening peace. (Psa 141:2) And another angel...

Louis Berkhof on the Early Christian Witness to Baptismal Regeneration

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More honest Reformed Protestant apologists will admit that the doctrine of baptismal regeneration was the teaching of the early Christian...