April 29, 2011 – 11:26 am
A couple months ago I received an email from someone who stumbled onto TempleStudy.com. It read in part, [The Bible] is purely a creation of man to placate the ego’s fear of death and nothing more. All religion was invented to buffer the ego against the fear of death. That’s certainly one way to think [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Temples Today
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Also tagged covenant, dead, death, exaltation, family, harold bloom, monks, physical, plan of salvation, poem, preoccupation, ray kurzweil, relationships, resurrection, science, sealing, temples
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October 19, 2009 – 4:46 pm
The use of those two words together, resurrection in mortality, appears to be perfectly incongruous at first glance. In our common parlance in the Church we understand resurrection to be something that can only happen after mortality. The resurrection “consists in the uniting of a spirit body with a body of flesh and bones, never [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Temples Today, Texts
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Also tagged anointing, atonement, calling and election, embrace, exaltation, farms, holy of holies, hugh nibley, joseph smith, margaret barker, maxwell institute, presence, priesthood, restoration, resurrection, scholar, seal, temple studies, throne, veil
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March 28, 2008 – 10:41 am
This LDS Gem was particularly thought-provoking this morning: We can have eternal life if we want it, but only if there is nothing else we want more. (Bruce C. Hafen, “The Atonement: All for All,” Ensign, May 2004, 98)
February 21, 2008 – 12:18 pm
Most people in the Church by now are probably familiar with the hymn that Janice Kapp Perry wrote a couple of months ago to accompany a poem written by President Hinckley. President Hinckley published his poem in the May 1988 Ensign article entitled, “The Empty Tomb Bore Testimony,” but he notes that he penned the [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Temples Today
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Also tagged death, gordon b. hinckley, hymn, janice kapp perry, MP3, music, poem, recording, resurrection, song, vocals
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