Tag: Jesus
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Saying Lord Lord
There has been a heated debate for the thirty years I’ve been a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as to whether Mormons are Christians. You’ve probably read my own thoughts about my hesitation to call myself a Christian, but that is not what this post is about. Jesus said…
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Pictures of Jesus
I have two very large pictures of Jesus. They are both LDS art. One is just a headshot in a white robe with a red cloak. If you’ve seen any LDS art you’ve seen this one. The other is a Sermon on the Mount print. I think. Maybe it’s a “suffer the little children to…
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Doubting My Doubts
One of my favorite Apostles is Dieter F. Uchtdorf. He’s charming and measured. He gave a conference talk about doubt and faith and it revolved around the idea that we should doubt our doubts and not doubt our faith. Jesus told a man to believe and the man responded: I believe help me to overcome…
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Time for Books
I go through phases where sometimes I read voraciously and others where I have to push myself to read. I’m currently working slowly through three books, one chapter a day. The first is Doctrine & Covenants. I’m about a quarter of the way through that but still in the 1830 chapters. I got a book…
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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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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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The Greatest Myth of the Scientific Mind
Sometimes I doubt that there are gods or a God. The best arguments for the divine are largely unfalsifiable. Did Jesus miraculously rise from the dead? I don’t care if you believe he did or not but I hope you will see that to prove it one way or the other we would have to…
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Back to my Old Habits
Toady I have had sugar, coffee, and… dun dun dun THC. That makes me a sinner in the LDS Church. But I wonder sometimes if it doesn’t make me a better Mormon. Scriptures have always hit differently when I’m high. They say that if you read the whole Bible it’ll make you an atheist. But…
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Dungeons, Dragons, and Dreams
Yesterday I saw a video of a $20,000 Nosferatu sarcophagus. This morning I dreamed about a D&D quest to recover it. It started out with me searching for it with an army of goblins. We were crossing snowy mountains with steep slopes. The goblins all started sliding down in a valley which woke a frost…
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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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