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Is Critical History forbidden to Latter-day Saints?
On another forum (in another language), we had some discussion about Critical History some while ago. In that discussion, I guess we all were very much for open history. The audience was somewhat self-selected for openness, as it is a site for airing “issues” in a polite, but open way. We should not, by any means, leave the Historiography of LDS restoration to those who do it to look for something unflattering for us. We’re much better off bringing as much as we can to light.
Our theory in principle is, that if we can research the Church history, as well as secular history, with an open mind and without blinding ourselves to contradictory Read more…
Gay marriage, another personal take
As someone else already pointed out, marriage ceremony was always between one man and one woman in Judeo-Christian culture, although one man could end up with more than one living wife in several cultures in history (including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) up to the turn of the 20th century).
The lurid ideas that some people seem to have Read more…
Women in The Priesthood
Now and again I hear someone ask when women will receive the Priesthood, which I spell with a capital P to denote that I mean the Priesthood expounded in the D&C as a whole package, including all the covenants. The Priesthood is incomplete without the covenants.
It is true, that a woman does not receive ordination. On the other hand, even if a man has had hands laid upon his head, he has not received the Priesthood, or fullness of it, unless Read more…
The Devil Made Me Do It Again!
As you’ll probably know, I’m an armchair philosopher. To put it a bit clearer, I read, study and ponder all kinds of things (my favorite scripture is D&C 88:78-80 which tells us what belongs to the doctrine of the Kingdom). And I like to speculate where I don’t have real knowledge; also, I am able to adjust my conclusions based on new information.
All of us, who haven’t been bred with full certainty about this world and its implications for us, have wondered at times why a good, omnipotent God allows so much evil in the World. It seems that quite often those who pay the highest price Read more…
For Common Good From Tribal Society to a Global One
Lately I have wondered what is “common good”. We can now observe societies that are in different states of progress, as a group of scientists lately did. They found out, that in a more modern society people tend to be more impartial toward stranger Read more…
Freedom ! (?)
That title is shorthand to asking what the freedom is that we want. Freedom from something or freedom for something?
Often we think that it is ideal to be totally independent of other people. Is that really so? Read more…
The Church Condemned
In my daily study I happened to run into D&C 84:54-55 (emphasis added):
And your minds in times past have been darkened because of unbelief Read more…
A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
What’s on your mind? Have you ever seen that line? Quite a few people have.
Have you given much thought to what that Read more…
Think of Light As Symbol of Spirit, Truth And More
I started the Co-Eternal Man series by quoting extensively from Doctrine & Covenants 93. You’ll remember, that there the Lord speaks through Joseph Smith, and the words Light, Truth and Spirit are used to express ideas that are associated with the following things: Read more…
Am I Inspired Or Inspiring
I have lately pondered about being inspired — or being inspiring to others.
I was in a position where I conducted Sacrament meetings for years. I was also, during those (about five) years, responsible for getting people to speak also in the meetings conducted by the other members of the Bishopric. Read more…
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