[…] written record. The problem with patriarchal lines is that they cannot be guaranteed. Paternity for most of human history has not been verifiable. This awkward fact has led to all sorts of fear–driven controls […]
[…] go to “every kindred, tongue, and people,” how can we justify the exclusion of over 100 million human beings? One final comment. It seems to me it would simplify matters if the theological aspect […]
[…] Equal Rights Amendment. Shaking his head he remarked, “Something’s wrong when we need an amendment like that—no human should have to ask for equal rights in this country. We shoulda learned that for good […]
[…] the first two chapters of Genesis which they interpret as requiring a divine supernatural origin for the human family. Science has discovered another possibility in the form of the theory of organic evolution. The […]
[…] transmission, still has the transformation required of the reader, not to mention the reality of errors of human cognition and inevitable reassessment of the canonical text. Just think of the issue of ontological assumptions […]
[…] fused product of Joseph Smith’s and Sidney Rigdon’s revolutionary thinking condensed into the prophet’s revelations.” To discount human-divine interaction in revelation or to see Joseph as merely a scribe for dictated communication from God […]
[…] service, performing moral duties out of love for God and his laws, or out of recognition of human fundamental rights, and it was often used in that way in political discourse. Given Joseph Smith’s […]
[…] were wrong. While not specifically named in the story, the two personages have been identified by Latter -day Saints as God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ; Joseph Smith indicated that the one […]
[…] of the glasses merely, the spectacles in question being altogether too large for the breadth of the human face (Charles Anthon letter to E. D. Howe, 17 Feb. 1834, in Mormonism Unvailed, p. 17). […]
[…] Doctrine and Covenants sections 131 and 132 tell us that celestial marriage and the continuation of the human family will enable us to become gods because we will have endless, everlasting increase (D&C 132:20). […]