One is hopeful, upon reading Elder McConkie’s preface to his latest volume on the dealings of Christ with mankind, that new ground may be broken for Mormons in the recognition of modern findings and scholarship—the…
[…] Are we to subscribe to the fundamentalist “verbalinspiration” dogma that every word is dictated (in King James English) by the Holy Spirit, and that all of our received traditions and texts are infallible? Ironically, […]
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[…] voice if I am pure a princess in Zion Oh how the fires of Sinai consume the world’s unblemished lambs firstlings without spot or broken bone My illuminated blemishes are new embroideries evident as […]