Tag: God
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I Bought A Mug
I have a decent collection of coffee mugs and this is my newest addition. The verse I am choosing to take out of context today is the one in Doctrine & Covenants 89 about hot drinks. I brewed that last of my cocoa instead of coffee to break it in. I’m not supposed to have…
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Choices We Can Make
I am a believer in the concept of moral agency. This is primarily a religious view. The freedom to choose is baked pretty deeply into Mormonism. But another secondary reason it that it seems counterintuitive at best that humans would have evolved a sense that we have freewill if it were only an illusion. That…
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Prayers
I am reassessing my relationship with Jehovah. I just think that as far as male transcendent gods go Brahma is superior. The other metric is that if Jehovah is the correct god there is no stretch of my imagination where I’m okay in his eyes. Brahma (if true) almost certainly doesn’t mind my penchant for…
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The Name of God
The name of God in the Old Testament is unpronounceable these days. Modern Jews call God Hashem sometimes. Hashem as I understand it just means The Name. There has been a prohibition against speaking the four Hebrew letters of God’s name since at least the time of Jesus. The word means “I am that I…
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Empty Space
I have a little shrine in my prayer room. It’s a corkboard with names and signs on it with a little private writing and art laying on the chair where the corkboard is propped. The center of the corkboard at the top is empty. It’s a blank space without any names or signs or art.…
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Burden of Proof
I saw it again today. An atheist saying that the burden of proof is on someone else. That doesn’t work for me. It is not someone else’s job to prove me wrong. If I have even a sliver of a fraction of a doubt that I might be wrong about God, it is my job…
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Hail-a Hail-a Infantry
“Hail-a Hail-a Infantry Queen a battle follow me Airborne Ranger’s the life for me Cause nothing in this world is free” “Up in the morning and out of the rack Beaten down by mortar attack The mortars and artillery Are raining bursts around me” “But in my heart I have no fear The Ranger god…
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A Perfect God
In discussions with atheists I am occasionally told that I’m only a theist to my own God and an atheist to everyone else’s. This line of attack does not work well against me. For one I freely admit the possibility of multiple gods, and angels, devils, jinn and ministering spirits which could be confused for…
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Omnipotent
An Omnipotent God has not chosen for me to worship him. I can only choose to worship a God who has given me sovereignty over my own soul. A God like that is not omnipotent. If there is an Omnipotent God then He chooses who does and doesn’t worship Him. That God has not inclined…
Latter Day Sinner 