September 30, 2012 – 5:36 pm
This is a follow-up to “The Age of the Earth” post, although I suppose that one was really laying the groundwork for this one. This is where everything comes to a head (like the one shown here). Was there death before the Fall of Adam and Eve? It is a very delicate question, because there [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Temples Today
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Tagged adam and eve, archaeology, bible, book of mormon, boyd k. packer, brigham young, bruce r. mcconkie, creation, dead, death, doctrines, evidence, garden of eden, hugh nibley, immortality, joseph fielding smith, physical, plan of salvation, questions, research, revelation, revelations, science, scriptures, study, transhumanism
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September 27, 2012 – 2:55 am
The LDS Church Public Affairs has just published a fantastic video explaining what temples are all about to Mormons. In it they have a conversation with Elder William R. Walker, Executive Director of the Church Temple Department. Elder Walker gives a great walkthrough tour of LDS temples, somewhat like a video walking tour through many [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Temples Today
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Tagged celestial room, conversation, exposé, inside, interior, media, rooms, salt lake temple, source, temples, video, watch, youtube
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September 26, 2012 – 12:23 pm
The Church has published this informative infographic about the differences between LDS temples and chapels. More can be read on the subject at the Church’s Newsroom site.
September 26, 2012 – 10:15 am
I came across an interesting blog post the other day, that gave eight philosophical questions that man believes we may never solve. One of the questions is, “is our universe real?” I researched many different facets of this question in my 45 page paper, “A Modern Worldview from Plato’s Cave.” In this blog post it [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Tidbits
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Tagged children, christ, glory, greek, life, light, philosophy, questions, transhumanism, universe, veil, worship
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September 24, 2012 – 7:05 pm
I recently came across an issue that has troubled some members of the Church. It is simply that some scriptures and the words of some Church leaders seem to indicate that the Earth is only about 6000-7000 years old, and that there was no death before the Fall of Adam and Eve. This causes significant [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Texts
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Tagged abraham, adam and eve, brigham young, creation, death, die, earth, fall, garden of eden, hebrew, john, joseph smith, moses, revelation, science, scriptures, symbolism, transhumanism, universe
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