The Challenge of Honesty
March 28, 2018[…] an acceptable goal, when the Church as a group becomes irrelevant as a force for peace and human brotherhood, then the individual’s need to examine his own commitments to God and the Church and […]
[…] an acceptable goal, when the Church as a group becomes irrelevant as a force for peace and human brotherhood, then the individual’s need to examine his own commitments to God and the Church and […]
[…] the Life, in which he proposed an “old earth” creation scenario and the possibility of “pre Adamic” human life. Shortly thereafter, apostle Joseph Fielding Smith denounced evolutionary biology and geology in a church magazine, […]
[…] God.” Needham uses this experience to launch an investigation into whether belief can be considered a universal human experience. Surveying the concept across cultures, he quickly discovers two things: 1) There is a “bewildering […]
[…] viewed as the word of God, but Joseph Smith, in this construct, would be the book’s inspired human author rather than its inspired translator.” Clearly, such a view provokes ultimate questions about the Book […]
[…] believe that book . . . .1 should be willing to bear, all the sins of the human family, beyond the grave—if these things, are not so!” At another conference in Orange Township, Ohio, […]
[…] Will and Infallible Fore knowledge,” where Ostler discusses the consequences of this concept of foreknowledge for both human and di vine freedom. For example, “Simple foreknowledge thus has the strange consequence of binding God […]
[…] offers a useful description of formal authority, contrasted with informal influence that often grows in response to human needs unmet by the formalized efficiency of bureaucracy. Informal influence, the sphere in which women have […]
[…] about home and family life, the nature of the kingdom of God, and the proper relationship of human beings to Jesus Christ and God the Father. These songs demonstrate a general sentimentalization of home […]
[…] in one of two broad ways. First, there was a tendency to associate her with some important human mother figure, such as Eve and, later, Mary, as human representations of the Hebrew Goddess. The […]
[…] and Heavenly Mother, to become divine parents of spirit children who will go through the formative experience human beings are currently undergoing. The faith avows a concept of eternal gender, connoting that human souls […]