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, eternal life, exaltation, family, harold bloom, monks, physical, plan of salvation, preoccupation, ray kurzweil, relationships, resurrection, science, sealing, temples
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March 26, 2008 – 12:50 pm
William Shakespeare once wrote a sonnet about love, probably the best-known among the 154 he wrote – Sonnet 18. I heard a beautiful song on YouTube this morning sung by David Gilmour and put to the words of this sonnet. It inspired me to write this reply: What would thy lines in memory provide, When [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Texts, Tidbits
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Also tagged death, family, life, love, marriage, poetry, relationships, seal, sealing, shakespeare, sonnet 18
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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, eternal life, gordon b. hinckley, hymn, janice kapp perry, MP3, music, recording, resurrection, song, vocals
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