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And it appears the JST was also heavily borrowed from Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible. In studying Bushman and Givens, I think JS saw himself more as a seeker/finder of truth in restoring it as opposed to everything being "revealed" through revelation. I am reading "Rough Stone Rolling" now -...

To me, "Reconciliation" is to "Reconcile" - which has accounting connotations. When you reconcile accounts, you compare them and look for where they don't match up. It can be a form of "taking stock" of the situation. I guess when we "reconcile" with people, we compare our expectations of them with ...

My husband and I started a Great Courses History series that included a lecture on Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. My husband listened approvingly to the teacher about the 95 Thesis paper that is attributed to Martin Luther and then commented, "He [Martin Luther] got a lot of things ri...

This experiment presupposes that the expectations that God has for each of the twins (and for all of us by extension) are the same. To me, the bigger question is really "what did each twin do with what they had" - the course before them. While the experiment made the playing ground equal sin-wise, i...

... and realize the church was never going to go back to being what it was to me because it never was that to begin with...I just thought it was. Now I can't unthink the way I see it. So...the next logical step was...move forward defining it as it should be for me. This was pretty instantaneous for...

I had an interesting conversation with my husband the other day about Hope. He mentioned he had been struggling and had been losing hope (which made his struggles worse). His struggles resonated with me, because I lost hope in a lot of things too over the last year - but I was able to push forward. ...

FWIW, I think our opposition to suicide is a recent, cultural ideology, rather than a long held religious one. What's for certain, is it's not mentioned as a sin in the bible. Some places, you could say even condone it, under certain circumstances. I think it's important to do everything in our pow...

Welcome :smile: Asking questions about what you believe is important. It sounds like you were able to keep a solid foundation of belief in the turbulent times you face. " I'm still trying to reconcile how to be apart of a church that I believe has Christ's gospel, but live with a culture that I don'...

It's funny, I started hearing about more stuff and getting a sense of what was going on in the branch when my husband was called as the executive secretary. NOTE: He is good about keeping the confidences of his calling - it's just that I learned the channels of learning information and he told me no...

There was a video from Lindybeige on Youtube, which I found to be very interesting, on Religion and War in Ancient Freece and Rome . It's definitely worth the watch. To sum up part of it, the Greek/Roman armies would often have an oracle with them, to fortell and give counsel. We've got plenty of s...