[…] would be in the language of the original, but the idea is that the JST gives the English sense of the original Greek or Hebrew texts of the Bible. Many JST passages demonstrate commendable […]
Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Six was not a dull year for the 127-year-old Deseret News. Melvin Dummar, a Box Elder County service station operator, was named, along with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day […]
[…] on the subject over the preceding five decades. Apostle Mark E. Petersen, as author of the Church News editorials for much of this time, also waged a highly visible “Church” campaign against birth control […]
[…] church. For rank-and-file Latter-day Saints, this proposition seems simply axiomatic of their foundational faith in the restoration of Christ’s gospel and their divine man date to convert the world in anticipation of his second advent.
[…] the diamonds of divine principles and moral teachings have been “draped and muffled,” putting into supposedly plain English what, for some reason, the prophets, apostles, and other writers of scripture seem to have failed […]
[…] means of a translation device (seer stone, interpreters, and/or Urim and Thummim) and then articulate them into English by tapping into his own mental storehouse of English vocabulary, phraseology, and conceptualizations (the theory of […]
[…] of the relationship between the LDS and FLDS, which occurred forty-six times, was some reference to “ breaking away” (e.g., broke, break, breaking, breakaway, etc.), as illustrated in the following two quotations: … the […]
[…] 43–73</i><br> Ever since his great synthesis, Darwin’s name has been a source of discomfort to the religious world. Too sweeping to be fully fathomed, too revolutionary to be easily accepted, but too well documented […]
[…] Presidency. A few months later a “carefully revised” version of his speech was published in the Deseret News, followed by a formal statement from the First Presidency, listing several explicit errors in Orson’s writings. […]
[…] dressing rooms of the mind. We discover in a sort of experimental fashion that most human beings share the same or similar representations of sensory experiences; thus reassured, we impute the label “reality” to […]