Category: witness
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Knowing Scripture
I use the term scripture loosely. When I started reading one of the first things my parents got me were Bible comic books. I think the brand was called Arch. I have a distinct memory of the battle between David and Goliath in soft pastels. I’ve been studying the Bible ever since. Over the years…
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No, All Men are not Created Equal
The Declaration of Independence is wrong. People don’t start out equal. Some have great advantages and some have great challenges. Some put great effort into enriching the world. Others squander their time and talents big and small. There are only two ways that I can imagine equality among humans. The first is infinite worth. But…
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Library
We have more books than I could read in a lifetime. I’m in the middle of three or four books right now. It occurred to me that I also have a new translation of the Quran to get through. So I look at our library with a sort of melancholy resignation that some of the…
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Pride and Judgement
I am a judgmental person. No one seems to care. I do not have authority over anyone. I can judge all I want and most of the time people just ignore it. I am not proud. I don’t really expect the world to care. I reject infinite worth and that leaves me feeling rather worthless…
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Informed Belief
I try very hard not to tell people what they should or shouldn’t believe. But I do tend to insist the people should be informed about what they believe. For instance the Bible is the single most influential book in human history. There are only a few books that even come close. People can have…
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Ignorance and Condemnation
“Wherefore, he has given a law; and where there is no law given there is no punishment; and where there is no punishment there is no condemnation; and where there is no condemnation the mercies of the Holy One of Israel have claim upon them, because of the atonement; for they are delivered by the…
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Everyone is awake
Everyone is awake But morning comes early I suppose it has already come With a change at midnight Sleep is a distant dream I heard that in a song But today the songs I’ve heard Are more churchy than that one I know many secrets That would make a man weep But I have a…
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Idolatry of Books
At one point a few years back I expressed my love for the Quran to the bishop of the ward. He had me set up a private council between his first counselor (who knows almost as much about Islam as I do) and the elders quorum president (who was there to observe). The counselor and…
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Preterism
I ran face first into a religious concept that I really should have suspected exists for a long time. Preterism is the idea that the Second Coming already occurred to the first generation of Christians. Mormonism puts a laser focus on the doctrine. Jesus appeared in the Americas and probably elsewhere after his resurrection. If…
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