“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 [...]
“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 Barker From MargaretBarker.com: [...]
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 [...]
Someone recently asked me the following: Perhaps you can explain how a person who finds the [temple experience] to be … troubling should express those feelings. This was my reply, with additional edits:
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices, Temples Today
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Also tagged atonement, discussion, early christian, endowment, experience, joseph smith, life, moses, prayer, purpose, rites, rituals, sacred, tabernacle, testimony
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