I just posted an article over at Millennial Star on this interesting subject. Check it out: “Is Evil the Absence of God?“
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Tidbits
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Also tagged adversary, agency, councils, creation ex nihilo, evil, lucifer, opposition, plan, rebellion, satan, sin
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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 [...]
The temples on earth are reflections of the temple in heaven. They mirror each other both in form and content. Consider the following points that I pull from Matthew Brown’s exceptional and classic book on the temple, The Gate of Heaven: John saw “the temple which is in heaven” (Rev. 14:15, 17; Rev. 15:5–8). Other [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged garments, heaven, initiation, new name, ordinances, preexistence, priesthood, primeval, primordial, redemption, robes
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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 [...]