August 12, 2008 – 11:42 am
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A few days ago I read a post by James over at his superb blog, Lehi’s Library, entitled, “Looking Beyond the Mark: Insights from Margaret Barker.” In it, James refers to an excellent [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices, Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged anointing, book of mormon, david, farms, hebrew, jerusalem, jews, john, margaret barker, marks, paul, restoration, satan, scholar, sealing, solomon, symbol
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In recent weeks I have encountered what I consider to be one of the most damaging forms of criticism of the Church. You might think that it is from all the anti-Mormon literature or propaganda. Or perhaps it is those who are so vocal as to picket the curbs at our General Conferences with signs, [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in General Authorities, Temples Today
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Also tagged anti-Christ, anti-mormon, apostasy, apostles, authority, book of mormon, calling, church, covenant, doctrines, earth, ezra taft benson, fall, hell, holy ghost, inside, life, obedience, opposition, paul, priesthood, principles, prophet, purpose, restoration, revelation, scriptures, testimony, thomas s. monson, truth
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It seems to me that there is an undercurrent among the more liberal “new order” Mormon bloggers in the Bloggernacle lately that try to refute or dilute the concept that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the “one true church.” While I do believe that there is much truth that is found [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in General Authorities
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Also tagged apostles, bloggernacle, church, ensign, eyewitness, general conference, henry b. eyring, joseph smith, ordinances, priesthood, prophet, revelation, testimony, thomas s. monson
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Elder Russell M. Nelson said this in a devotional he gave on December 10, 2002 at BYU:
The time is coming when those who do not obey the Lord will be separated from those who do. Our safest insurance is to continue to be worthy of admission to His holy house. How blessed we are to [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in General Authorities, Tidbits
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Also tagged BYU, ezra taft benson, henry b. eyring, holy place, obedience, prophet, second coming, thomas s. monson, video, work
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Live in strict obedience to the commandments of God, and walk humbly before Him, and He will exalt thee in His own due time. -Joseph Smith
Last week was the Joseph Smith manual chapter 13 lesson for Priesthood and Relief Society entitled, “Obedience: ‘When the Lord Commands, Do It.’” This was an excellent lesson, and I [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Temples Today
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Also tagged ancients, calling, church, crown, earth, election, exaltation, faithfulness, joseph smith, marriage, missionary, obedience, paul, priesthood, probation, prophet, purity, sacrifice, sealing, testimony, work
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The scholarly world is aflutter over the latest discovery of a 3-foot tall tablet being called “Gabriel’s Revelation,” “Hazon Gabriel,” or the “Vision of Gabriel.” It contains 87 lines of Hebrew text written in ink on stone, and has been dated to the first century BCE. The tablet was found near the Dead Sea in [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged adam, ascension, atonement, david, dead sea, discussion, early christian, egyptian, gate, greek, imagery, jews, marriage, redemption, resurrection, revelation, ritual, scholar, symbol, test, translation, veil
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I had contemplated entitling this post “A Change in Temple Sacrifice Following Christ,” but since today is Father’s Day, I thought this title was more appropriate.
From the time they left Jerusalem until the time of Christ’s ministry among his descendants in the Americas 600 years later, Lehi and his family offered sacrifice and burnt offerings [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in General Authorities, Texts
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Also tagged atonement, burnt offerings, covenant, general conference, law of moses, moses, offerings, psalms, ritual, sacrifice
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Mark Greene posted a comment a few days ago on my multi-part paper The Genesis of the Round Dance that I thought was very insightful:
In thinking further about your interesting paper on the genesis of the ring dance, I remembered that there is a marvelous example of a prayer circle and therefore a type of [...]
(Continued from Part 1)
To continue our discussion on whether God may dwell in temples on earth, and whether there exists a need for further temples after Christ, we might look again to the Bible to see if God dwelled in those sacred edifices which He commanded to be built in ancient times.
The first example that [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Temples Today, Texts
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Also tagged apostles, ark of the covenant, bible, cherubim, church, construction, early christian, holy place, jerusalem, light, mountain, new name, paul, presence, redemption, sacrifice, solomon, symbol, synagogue, tabernacle, tokens
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The other article that impressed me from the latest Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, 16/2 (2007), was Donald W. Parry’s “Service and Temple in King Benjamin’s Speech.” Why did it impress me? Because it related subjects in the Book of Mormon to the temple, something that we haven’t seen a lot of [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Texts, Uncategorized
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Also tagged altar, bible, book of mormon, donald w. parry, garments, hebrew, moses, offerings, ordinances, sacrifice, scholar, service, solomon, tabernacle
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The Testament of Levi is one of the books in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and is an apocryphal and pseudopigraphal work so we do not know its original author or source. The Testament of Levi, as we have it today, was composed in its final form in the second century B.C. [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Texts
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Also tagged anointing, apron, ascension, book of mormon, cap, celestial, clothing, coronation, crown, early christian, garments, gate, heaven, holy of holies, holy place, joseph smith, nephi, new name, ordination, priesthood, prophet, revelation, robe, sacred, sacrifice, throne, washing
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I was first introduced to Cyril’s Catechetical Lectures by Hugh Nibley in his phenomenal work The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri. Cyril of Jerusalem is a prominent early Christian theologian, and is considered a saint by many. His most famous writings are set of twenty-three catechetical lectures which he delivered around 347 [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices, Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged adam, anointing, atonement, baptism, cyril of jerusalem, early christian, garments, holy ghost, hugh nibley, imitation, initiates, mystery, ordinances, washing, water
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March 23, 2008 – 10:32 am
On this bright Easter morning I thought we might reflect on the glorious resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, and particularly how this miraculous gift and triumph over death by the Savior has a very central theme and part of our temple. I don’t think we recognize just how inseparably tied are the realities [...]
This last week I finally swung by Seagull Book and picked up Dr. Andrew Skinner’s new book Temple Worship. I had heard about it before from ads, and from an excellent interview that Carol Mikita had with Dr. Skinner.
I’ve been impressed with the depth that Dr. Skinner approaches the temple subject, and the new [...]
Mormons wear sacred undergarments as part of our religious worship. I thought it might be good today to take a look at a well-known religious tradition, Judaism, and the very similar practice that they have, like us, of wearing certain sacred clothing. I, for one, highly respect the Jews’ practice of this in [...]
In a recent June 2007 Ensign article entitled “Oil in Our Lamps” Elder Lynn G. Robbins of the Seventy wrote an excellent commentary on the parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25 and its connection with our latter-day temple worship and worthiness. As Elder Robbins notes, one way to “liken [these parables] unto [...]
On my tour through Ukraine a couple years ago I became familiar with what is known as the iconostasis (plural iconostases) that is found in almost every Eastern Orthodox Church. This is a thin wall or partition that separates the nave, where the lay worshipers reside, from the sanctuary in the church, where the [...]
February 29, 2008 – 12:11 pm
The Jews anxiously await the day that they will be able to rebuild the Jerusalem temple, often referred to as the third temple, as a holy house of worship of God. There has been a Jewish institute established, The Temple Institute, in Jerusalem for the very purpose of researching the history of the temple and [...]