[…] promise of “getting it all together.” Man is perceived to have pre-existed this life in the spirit world; but since there are experiences which are not available to a pure spirit form (physical pain, […]
[…] the pioneers were crossing the plains, a man by the name of William McCary, who had Native American and African American ancestry, caused a lot of grief and trouble for both saints and the […]
[…] Martha, who had been “afraid to die. Not afraid of the afterward . . . but of breaking off. In all breaking away there is agony, and Martha had loved to live” (p. 21). […]
[…] that the individual spirit of man existed in the presence of God before the creation of the world is unique in modern Christianity. Mormons have rejected the Creator/creature dichotomy of Patristic theology and its […]
[…] worked. (He doesn’t say which J. W. translation he used but the one I’m aware of, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures , is translated from the “original languages, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.”) He […]
[…] the death penalty on him self, disaster will overtake anyone killing a mocking bird, and a person breaking an owl’s wings must himself suffer broken limbs, a Utah variant of the well known penalty for […]
[…] victims of some other tragedy. They might just be confused youngsters, fighting to make sense of a world that seems cruel and unfeeling. Joining a strange Church is not a risk simply because these […]
[…] in heaven who will inhabit earths created by their parent gods. Creating includes not only making a world, but peopling it through procreating, through sexual union with one’s spouse. Parley P. Pratt rhapsodized that […]
[…] is that there is a God. And, since God set the forces in motion that called this world into being, it follows that all truth, from whatever source, relates to him and his existence. […]
I found this philosophical bit by Chip Janis in In the New World (1988), a little book of poems put together by young Indian students at the Pretty Eagle School and St. Charles Mission […]