Sunday, May 27, 2018

D& 96:6-9 and the contingent nature of being "ordained"

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In D&C 96:6-9, we read the following: And again, verily I say unto you, it is wisdom and expedient in me, that my servant John Joh...

Mosiah 13:27 shedding light on 2 Nephi 25:23 and "After all we can do"

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In his debate with the wicked priests of King Noah, the prophet Abinadi is recorded as having said: And now ye have said that salvatio...

Jonathan Stapley, Defending the Temple and Priesthood Restriction as God's Will

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Jonathan Stapley, the author of the excellent The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology (Oxford, 2018), has just posted a great...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

Request for Article on Pro-Life Issues

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As readers of this blog know, 70% voted to repeal the 8th Amendment here n Ireland, which will now, to our nation's eternal shame, lega...

Rabbinic Sources Discussing Genesis 1:1 and the Preposition בְּ in בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית and Related Concepts

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In his King Follett Discourse , Joseph Smith briefly discussed the first word of the Hebrew Bible, ‎ בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית (“in the beginning”), f...

Ephraim Urbach on the Difference between the Miracles of Jesus and Miracles in Rabbinic Literature

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Commenting on the difference between the miracles of Jesus and those in Rabbinic literature, Ephraim E. Urbach wrote: An outstanding f...

Thoughts on the Recent Referendum

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I would like to thank everyone who prayed for the recent Referendum. Sadly, the 8th Amendment will be repealed. About 70% of the electorate...