Posts tagged "Scriptures"
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These Things
There is a verse in the Book of Mormon that is horrifically proof-texted, and strained to such an interpretation as to defy reason. That verse is Alma 39:5:
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Ad Hominem
An ad hominem fallacy is one where, instead of attacking an argument directly, you attack a person making the argument, and use your attacks on that person as a way to discredit the argument. In short, you’re ignoring the thing being debated and attacking the debater.
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It is not the same
How often have we heard the admonition that we must follow the prophet because whenever he speaks, it is as if God’s speaking, because “it is the same”? I hear this very frequently, and every time I do, I am saddened at how we repeat the words of others without bothering to read the scriptures for ourselves.
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Suffering
The LDS Church has changed its doctrine on apostasy to now include those who “are in a same-gender marriage.” By extension, the children of such couples are also being punished: they can not be blessed in the Church, and in order to receive ordinances must disavow the marriage of their parents.
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The Third Person
I’ve been studying the Book of Ether recently, and I came across a verse again that has always bothered me:
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Questions and the Sermon on the Mount
This year our Sunday School is studying the New Testament, and last week the lesson covered Matthew 5.
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Searching
[M]y father, Lehi, took the records which were engraven upon the plates of brass, and he did search them from the beginning.
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Stripped down
One of the downsides, if you could call it that, of reading in the Bloggernacle is that of extreme discontent.