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 [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Scholarship, Temples Today
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August 12, 2012 – 11:14 pm
If you have not had the opportunity to read David Bokovoy’s inaugural article in the new Interpreter journal, I recommend it. It discusses Nephi’s experience in 1 Nephi 11 when he was caught away to “an exceedingly high mountain” where he had a question and answer exchange with the Spirit of the Lord, and thereafter [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged book of mormon, creation, earth, endowment, experience, gate, heaven, light, moses, mountain, mysteries, nephi, pattern, question, recommend, righteousness, sacred space, scriptures, seal, worthiness
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A friend of mine noted today that in a very small sense he is an atheist, because he does not know 100% that God’s exists, nor can God be so proven. On the other hand, he is also a strong believer because he believes God exists from all the evidences that he has experienced which [...]
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known” (1 Corinthians 13:12). This scripture from the New Testament has often been used to describe our current estate in life, our vision and perception being a [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts
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Also tagged apron, corinthians, garments, interpreters, joseph smith, moses, new name, priest, prophet, revelation, revelations, seer, seer stone, translation, translations, urim & thummim, veil, video
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