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 [...]
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September 6, 2012 – 4:26 pm
(Continued from Part 3) This is a continuation of a series of posts that I started a few years ago. Of course, it could easily fit within the series very recent posts on the same subject of the law of consecration, including Hugh Nibley quotes from Approaching Zion, “Are we required to live the law of [...]
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(Continued from Part 1) In the last part of this post we explored what it means to see the face of God in the temple. Seeing the face of God is promised to us in the scriptures, and as we showed, it was one of the foremost purposes of the prophet Joseph Smith in building [...]
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Also tagged book of mormon, dwell, endowment, experience, face, heaven, jesus christ, joseph smith, physical, presence, revelation
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November 30, 2008 – 5:20 pm
Last week I was asked by our bishop to present a 10-15 minute portion of a lesson today on the importance of temple work in our combined priesthood/relief society meeting. Our stake is preparing for a “temple month” theme for January, and our meeting today was meant to inspire us to be thinking about family [...]
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Also tagged altar, ancestors, boyd k. packer, brigham young, creation, elijah, eternal, exaltation, family, family history, genealogy, general conference, gordon b. hinckley, joseph smith, ordinance work, ordinances, organization, priesthood, seal, sealing
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November 17, 2008 – 9:07 pm
“Some day we will live the law of consecration again, but until then we must be ‘willing’ to live it.” “It is Church doctrine that the full Law of Consecration was suspended by the Lord through the Prophet in 1834.” “My belief is that things will get progressively worse until the actual Second Coming when [...]
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