September 6, 2012 – 4:26 pm
(Continued from Part 3) This is a continuation of a series of posts that I started a few years ago. Of course, it could easily fit within the series very recent posts on the same subject of the law of consecration, including Hugh Nibley quotes from Approaching Zion, “Are we required to live the law of [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Scholarship, Temples Today
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October 17, 2008 – 1:44 pm
I had a conversation a few months ago about this question. Those that I were discussing this with made the argument that the “heathen,” the term my correspondent used for those who’ve never heard a part or portion of the gospel in mortality, are without the gospel law in mortality, and therefore they will be [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Temples Today, Texts
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Also tagged agency, atonement, baptism, bruce r. mcconkie, children, exaltation, garden of eden, gate, jesus christ, joseph smith, marriage, mortality, obedience, ordinance work, ordinances, presence, principles, repentance, salvation, vicarious
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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 and eve, ascension, atonement, david, David Jeselsohn, dead sea, dead sea scroll in stone, discussion, early christian, egyptian, gabriel's revelation, gate, greek, hazon gabriel, imagery, jesus christ, jews, judaism, marriage, resurrection, revelation, rituals, scholar, symbols, test, translation, veil, vision of gabriel
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A member of another faith asked me the following question: In the [LDS] service that I attended, the speaker said that service to the Temple is the most important service that we can provide. Is this opinion common across members of the LDS church? Why is service to the Temple held in higher regard than, [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Temples Today
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Also tagged atonement, blessing, church, death, exaltation, mortality, offerings, ordinances, presence, revelation, salvation, service, sin, tithing, vicarious, visit
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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 [...]
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, light, mountain, new name, paul, presence, sacrifice, solomon, symbols, synagogue, tabernacle, tokens
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