[…] event which was both necessary and desirable for the progress of Adam and Eve and the entire human family, while simultaneously viewing it as a transgression which merited punishment. The story contains a double […]
[…] and justly in those peculiarly nice points of distinction which are determined by the emotions agitating the human heart in its variety of phases, or under, perhaps, exceptional circumstances? I am sensitive to that […]
[…] of Nyssa suggested that “in the power of God’s fore knowledge .. . all the fullness of human nature had pre-existence (and to this the prophetic writing bears witness, which says that God ‘knoweth […]
[…] temporal existence of this earth was very short, only a few thousand years; that there was no human life on this earth prior to Adam; that the so called pre-Adamite finds of science were […]
[…] person; he relies on the tests of “prove all things” and “by their fruits” because he regards no human authority as infallible. The Iron Rod sees some human authorities—prophets, scriptures and inner promptings—as sufficiently re […]
[…] a man with architectural training could give to his family. He could, when not busy with child-care, design a home for his family and supervise its construction, thus saving thousands of dollars. A man […]
“If there is anything virtuous, lovely . . . we seek after these things.” Granted. But loveliness by what criteria? We in the Church often presume a common aesthetic; or when conflicts in judgment arise—whether…
[…] for caps, gowns, and hoods,” in the United States. Before that there were no rules. You could design your own; and that liberty goes as far back as these fixings can be traced. The […]
[…] doubt in religious matters or to call all doubt sinful is to deny a central fact of human experience and to ignore the very real doubts of some pivotal religious leaders. As Frances Lee […]
[…] that he did not consider the least sinful; but, more importantly, it would block the progress of human inquiry. The next word of significance in the title is species, a term then synonymous with […]