November 17, 2008 – 9:07 pm
If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for email alerts or subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for reading!“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 [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Scholarship, Temples Today
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Also tagged bruce r. mcconkie, BYU, consecration, covenant, gordon b. hinckley, hugh nibley, neal a. maxwell, obedience, sacrifice, scholar, symposium, tithing
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October 7, 2008 – 7:08 pm
The account of the Fall of Adam and Eve in the Bible is relatively succinct, particularly in the vocal exchanges between the serpent, Eve, and Adam (bolded below). What details we know of the Fall come primarily from chapter 3 of Genesis:
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged adam and eve, bible, fair, fall, glory, john tvedtnes, light, literature, satan, scholar, translation
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September 18, 2008 – 7:50 pm
Check out the new Mormon.org website that was launched today. It is very clean and well designed, a big improvement over the former website. A great new feature of the site that I’m sure will be used a lot is that visitors from anywhere in the world will be able to chat live with [...]
September 11, 2008 – 6:59 pm
(Continued from Part 3)
To continue my research I wanted to know as accurately as possible the story about this symbol, the “seal of Melchizedek,” as it was used in the San Diego Temple. I couldn’t find a good account online, so I decided to go to the source. Who better would know than the design [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, General Authorities, Scholarship, Temples Today
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Also tagged apostles, architecture, BYU, celestial, construction, design, gordon b. hinckley, hugh nibley, melchizedek, nauvoo temple, pattern, photos, salt lake temple, san diego temple, seal, symbol, symbols
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August 10, 2008 – 4:56 pm
“We have to try to get through the filter of the later editing… But deep down, there was something there. I’m mean this [the temple] is a cultural icon, it’s shaped our pictures of the garden of Eden, it’s shaped our pictures of what it is to be a human being. Because Adam is the [...]
August 10, 2008 – 4:40 pm
“…the building of the Second Temple involved leveling a new site… I mean, as far as I can see, the Zachariah prophesies about the mountain becoming a plain and building all that sort of thing, they are implying that a new mountaintop site is to be used for the rebuilt temple. That suggests to [...]
August 9, 2008 – 11:44 am
“The original purpose of the temple pilgrimage, was that you went to the temple to see the face of the Lord. Yea? In the old calendars ‘each of your males will see the face of the Lord’… By the time you’re reading the Masoretic texts as we have now, ‘each of your [...]
August 9, 2008 – 10:54 am
“… the Old Testament describes idolatry as the work of human hands. So if you worship the work of human hands, the political system, economics, anything like that, that is idolatry. The consequence of idolatry, according to the commandments, is that the third and fourth generation suffer from their iniquity.” —Margaret Barker
“A single parent is [...]
August 9, 2008 – 10:17 am
Book on Christianity and environmentalism due out by November 2010.
“…is it profitable, is it viable, is this a business proposition? When business propositions have got us into a bit of a mess. There’s got to be other ways of discourse. And the awful thing is, because religion has been so sidelined in [...]
“It’s things like that, you know, reading through Matthew as well, all sorts of things, there’s such many stories, and when you stop and read them, you think, ‘Oh, my goodness!’ You know. ‘I’ve been looking at that for fifty years, and it just never dawned on me what I was reading.’ It is amazing.” [...]
Book entitled “Christmas: The Original Story” due to be released in September 2008.
“It’s a lovely early [Christmas] icon, because it shows the three wise men coming, dressed as three high priests.” —Margaret Barker
“Those three gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh, the old tradition was, that Adam, the original high priest, the angels had given him those [...]
“It’s very interesting, isn’t it? There’s something called the SBL [Society of Biblical Literature] that’s existed all this time with nothing about the central theme of the Bible, which is the temple. I mean, that should make everyone stop and rub their eyes in amazement, I think. But here we are.” —Margaret [...]
I just received an email from Dr. William Hamblin who is currently studying at a seminar in Oxford, England, and he said he had the unique opportunity to have a lunch today with Methodist scholar Margaret Barker about her intriguing and in-depth research into temple studies. Barker graciously permitted him to film the conversation, and [...]
If you have not been able to tell, one of my top role models and mentors is Dr. Hugh Winder Nibley, former BYU professor and highly esteemed LDS scholar. He was and is still considered the foremost LDS scholar and apologist of this century, and perhaps of all time. And he was a genius. Once [...]
Some of you may remember the survey I posted here on TempleStudy.com back in May. It was a huge success. Many of you responded to my request for feedback, even those of you who don’t normally comment. Some of you gave me great compliments, for which I am very thankful, and many also gave suggestions [...]
It’s been about four months since I began the TempleStudy.com blog. During that time I have made many new friends, and have become acquainted with many new people. It has been a great learning and growing time. I have found that I learn much more about the temple as I research these [...]
January 19, 2008 – 5:54 pm
A recent post from the Summa Theologica blog highlights a note in the latest FARMS review article “The Study of Mormonism: A Growing Interest in Academia” by M. Gerald Bradford, Associate Executive Director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. Bradford recognizes that there is a general lack [...]
January 18, 2008 – 10:37 am
It has been the conversation of many lately of what members of the church should and shouldn’t discuss about the LDS temple while outside of the temple. Here are some of my thoughts.
What can we talk about?
There is a lot that we can share with others about the temple. The main doctrines that [...]
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