October 7, 2008 – 7:08 pm
If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for email alerts or subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for reading!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 [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged adam and eve, bible, conversation, fair, fall, glory, john tvedtnes, literature, satan, scholar, translation
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September 3, 2008 – 9:56 am
My 2-year-old daughter loves to watch the Disney/Pixar movie Finding Nemo. Consequently, we’ve watched it dozens of times. My wife pointed out this interesting clip from the movie. I thought it was fun and curious. Enjoy!
What is Truth? I hope this will help shed some light. The living prophets of this dispensation have spoken the word of the Lord.
From the “Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson” (pgs. 115-121):
Truth is a glorious thing. We sing about it. “Oh say, what is truth?/’Tis the fairest gem/That the riches of worlds can produce.” [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, General Authorities
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Also tagged apostles, authority, church, exaltation, ezra taft benson, hymn, joseph smith, keys, music, organization, priesthood, principles, prophet, restoration, revelation, salvation, testimony, thomas s. monson, truth
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(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, jesus christ, mountain, new name, paul, presence, redemption, sacrifice, solomon, symbol, synagogue, tabernacle, tokens
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While there is undoubtedly an abundance of temple allusions in the whole of Enoch apocryphal literature, I came across a good example today. I will certainly add more as I learn about them.
This example is from 2 Enoch. This apocrypha text is a pseudepigraphon, meaning its authorship is unknown, but is considered part [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Texts
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Also tagged anointing, ascension, celestial, cherubim, enoch, exaltation, garments, glory, greek, heaven, imagery, literature, new name, pseudepigrapha, revelation, round dance, throne, translation
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon [...]