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Well, here goes nothing, going to try to do a vlog post for something different. I feel compelled to write a little more here below but then that kind of defeats the purpose of having a video.
The Lectures of Faith, or in other words, the “Doctrine” portion of the Doctrine & Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was removed by a committee in 1921 for four questionable reasons. Were they legitimate reasons?…
Picture in your mind’s eye a beautiful stained glass window where light from the sun passes through a collection of colored panes that transform the light into something wonderful. Church is like the window and we are like those colored panes. When we come…
What is most peculiar to me is how we each have our own peculiar understanding of what the word peculiar means? Are you one of those who thinks peculiar means ‘odd’ or ‘weird’? Think again.
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The Book of Mormon Really Teaches This?
The “Conversion Spectrum” in the Book of Mormon
I can’t get into this without first acknowledging Michael S. Schneider’s wonderful book A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe. Schneider takes the reader on an interesting voyage through numbers starting at 1 and proceeding through subsequent numbers. While many…
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“By controlling our reactions, being calm and temperate and avoiding contention, we will begin to qualify for the gift of meekness.” – Ulisses Soares
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The conference “Mormonism and the Temple: Examining an Ancient Religious Tradition,” which took place on October 29, 2012 in Logan, Utah, was filmed, and while I used to have the videos posted here, it appears they have been taken down…
In response to an email question about the meaning of beehives sent in by Cameron to ldsSymbols.com, I dug up some information that I had read several years ago. I located the article I was looking for here, which contains a…
“One and two are considered the parents of numbers, not really numbers themselves. And they give birth to the digits three through nine, in other words, trinity to the trinity of trinities. And with that and zero you can create…
There are two consequences in history…
There are two consequences in history: one immediate and instantaneously recognized; the other distant and unperceived at first. These consequences often contradict each other; the former come from our short-run wisdom, the latter from long-run wisdom. The providential event appears…
Ravening Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
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It’s very interesting how certain beliefs and teachings are common all around the world. Psychologist Carl Jung conducted some interesting research into archetypes, which are ancient mental images that persist in the present consciousness. But can that account for many…
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