[…] 17; 19:6-36). The compassionate Savior of 3 Nephi reconciles the resurrected glory of the Christ with the humanity of Jesus in ways possibly unmatched elsewhere in Christian thought. Furthermore, the visit of the resurrected […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of the more important of these became popularly known as “the five points”: (1) unconditional predestination (some humans, the elect, are selected by God’s apparently arbitrary decree to receive grace and salvation while the […]
[…] understand new scientific breakthroughs within the context of the gospel by focusing on molecular biology and the Human Genome Project, since these two enterprises have been important catalysts for the Biological Revolution. First, a […]
[…] any thing which could possibly be interpreted by a slave, that it was not just to hold human beings in bondage, would be jeopardizing the life of every white inhabitant in the country. For […]
[…] out of political and religious hierarchies. As Tikva Frymer-Kensky put it, “the Bible presents no characteristics of human behavior as ‘female’ or ‘male,’ no division of attributes between the poles of ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine.’ […]
[…] not begotten by the Holy Ghost; and “who is the Father?” He is the first of the human family; and when he took a tabernacle, it was begotten by his father in heaven, after […]