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[…] have some cause—perhaps setting an implicit example God would like Job to follow. The completion of the di vine menagerie gives rise to Job’s second response to God: Then Job answered the LORD: “I know […]
[…] of Enoch (1 Enoch 37-71) there are some moving passages concerning the “Son of Man.” However, Matthew Black has pointed out that “there is nothing specifically Christian in these chapters; the terms ‘son of […]
[…] universe that there is no God. I believe in God because of having a relationship with my di vine parents. I find in the increasing size of the known universe, humility and wonder. Wonder […]
[…] an hour. Jessop described the commotion: I with Carl Jentzch walked to the front to Bro. Edwin Black who had charge of the meeting and We protested them, charging they had been teaching false […]
[…] Missouri, the location of Mormonism’s Zion. Remini’s discussion of the origins of the controversial policy of Mormon black priesthood denial is misleading. The author’s suggestion of a link between Smith’s Book of Abraham and […]
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[…] at the University of Utah, as of Veterans (Armistice) Day, November 11, 2003, students had hung a black paper chain, like those we used to make for Christmas of red and green. I had […]
[…] saw the other group in stereotypes. They “wore fundamentalist Mormonism like a badge: severe buns, long skirts, black suits, faces scrubbed and plain, persisting in old-fashioned dress even for the children.” Joseph Musser’s Death […]
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