[…] some radical ideas, such as: (1) matter and spirit can be neither created nor annihilated, (2) the world was not created ex nihilo, but organized out of existing matter, and (3) God is bound […]
[…] are my thoughts and meditations, to say what is the use to send missionaries to all the world to convert the world, while we have a tribe of Israel in our midst, which are […]
[…] not what you’d expect from a Latin American woman. Her parents were German, immigrants who came before World War II to Tupambay. Johann Vogle, a carpenter, had become a prosperous building contractor. The two […]
[…] between these great changes, but must have been millions of years. The Bible says God created the world in six days, but this does not mean the time which we call days now, viz 24 […]
<i>Dialogue 18.2 (Summer 1985): 92–113</i><br>During the last twenty-five years, Reorganized Latter Day Saints have struggled to discover what it means to be the body of Christ in the modern world.
[…] of Indian worship, he notes: “All that is wanting to make them the happiest people in the world is the Gospel . . . and to feel its power. Their sectarian creeds and ceremonies […]
[…] expected on the basis of Galatians. “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and prayers . . . Day by day, attending the temple together and breaking […]
[…] plural marriage, the political state of Deseret, the Deseret alpha bet, and the Mormon separation from the world were concepts that had to be abandoned, much as ancient Israel had to shed its Egyptian […]
[…] his neighbors’ conviction that deflecting demons and communicating with angels was essential to their well-being in this world and their salvation in the next. By employing magical techniques to communicate with angels and to […]
[…] notion of God as growing from a man, fabricated visions, threatened or symbolic violence to punish covenant- breaking, and perfectionism-based depression (see Ostler 1984; Roberts 1985; Bluhm et al. 1986; and Brodie 1971, 24, […]