[…] of Mormon’s. John Fletcher (1729-85), a Methodist theologian in America, stated that “Christ died for the entire human race, first to procure absolutely and unconditionally a temporary salvation, for men universally, and secondly, to […]
[…] Whitely. These debates have always centered on the same issue: whether God’s saving grace is compatible with human freedom. Discussions of grace in Mormon thought are too often carried out in almost complete ignorance […]
[…] Widtsoe said: “Latter-day Saints are inclined to hold that forces about us, known in part through common human experience, especially in the field of physical science, were employed in the formation of the earth.” […]
[…] the concept: (1) the literal physical son-father relationship of Christ to God the Father, and (2) the human capacity for a bodily theosis, which recapitulates God’s developmental process, if not completely in scope, at […]
[…] view of Luis de Molina that saving grace is sufficient only if it combines with the free human will to become efficacious grace. Efficacious or operative grace: Grace which accomplishes salvation. Irresistible grace: Grace […]
[…] Socratic dialogue Phaedo, Plato offered a multi-layered argument for the immortality of the soul, claiming that the human spirit belonged with the Forms—that is, the highest and most fundamental kind of reality as opposed […]
[…] for persons to take their problems to an absolute being who literally could not care less about human affairs, a being to whom human existence could not possibly add or have meaning. Indeed, I […]
[…] spirits have gender, a concept most recently stated by President Gordon B. Hinckley in general conference: “All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or […]
[…] apparently arbitrary decree to receive grace and salvation while the remaining, the reprobates, are damned), (2) total human depravity, the inability to do any good un less influenced by God’s grace, (3) limited atonement […]
[…] If Jesus is “touched with the feeling of our infirmities,” he feels the depths and vicissitudes of human emotion, every bodily pleasure and pain. And if he is the “express image” (Heb. 1:3; see […]