[…] problems. I spent much of my life making that mistake in my thinking about atonement. I had read that “God’s justice requires that a penalty be paid for every sin” and that “to atone […]
[…] but in sists that there is no direct evidence that Smith, in fact, did. He states: “ Today, I acknowledge that people in Joseph Smith’s environs 1829 could have known of chiasmus, but I […]
[…] that He necessarily wanted His children in earlier dispensations to have all the information that we have today, the reason being that they could not handle it. Going back to some of your earlier […]
[…] doesn’t, or revert to Aristotelian science when we can’t cope with the reality of what is known today. So when he says, “If we are not supposed to know how to do this, we […]
[…] The Father was “a God not only possessing body and parts, but flesh and bones, and si news, and all the attributes, organs, senses, and affections of a perfect man.” Logically, he argued, “beings […]
[…] is evidenced by the speeches of countless self-seeking congressmen and politicians. It was echoed in almost every newspaper and propaganda organ in the country. Unfortunately for the government, the Saints would not capitulate to […]
[…] feminine charms have forsaken her” (1947, 19). Polygamist Edson Jessop of Short Creek explained in a national news story, “We believe in covering our bodies and we frown upon make-up; silence itself is reproof […]
[…] the eventual imprisonment of twenty two of them, and publicity in such national publications as Time, Look, Newsweek, and most major newspapers. Again, the Church publicly applauded the raid. The following official statement appeared […]
[…] got my first acceptance letters a few months later and was not just relieved but energized. The news felt good, and it felt right. Whatever I was to do with my future, the Spirit […]
[…] there was no putting them back. In a year when Relief Society lessons, conference talks and Church News editorials routinely condemned working women, we proudly published on the back cover of our pink Dialogue […]