February 29, 2008 – 12:11 pm
The Jews anxiously await the day that they will be able to rebuild the Jerusalem temple, often referred to as the third temple, as a holy house of worship of God. There has been a Jewish institute established, The Temple Institute, in Jerusalem for the very purpose of researching the history of the temple and [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Temples Today
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Tagged clip, eschatology, film, jerusalem, jesus christ, jews, movie, rebuilding, reconstruction, reinstitute, second coming, temple institute, video
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February 28, 2008 – 11:20 am
For those who may not know, for the past few years the Church has been overhauling and rebuilding FamilySearch, one of the world’s premiere family history and genealogy websites, to expand its features and functionality significantly. It has been several years in the making, and is slowly being rolled out to members in selected temple [...]
February 27, 2008 – 12:52 pm
The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU posted a short featured article on their homepage yesterday by Dr. Stephen Ricks on the subject of the dexiosis (Greek) or dextrarum iunctio (Latin), which was a peculiar Greek, Etruscan, Roman, and Early Christian practice of joining the right hands in a solemn and ceremonial [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices, Scholarship
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Tagged dexiosis, dextrarum iunctio, farms, fidelity, handclasp, marriage, right hands, seal, sealing, stephen ricks
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February 27, 2008 – 7:16 am
Bishop N.T. Wright is the Bishop of Durham in the Church of England. He is considered one of the world’s foremost theologians. Last night he was interviewed by Martin Bashir on ABC’s Nightline program about his new book “Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church,” in which he gave [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship
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Tagged clip, death, die, eschatology, film, heaven, hell, mcconkie, movie, n.t. wright, nightline, resurrection, video
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February 26, 2008 – 5:19 pm
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts
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Tagged baptism, baptismal font, belgium, christ, eglise notre-dame-aux-fonts, eglise sant barhelemy, font, liege, mosan, oxen, renier de huy, rheno-mosan
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