Comments on: Mere Mormonism https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/ Truth Will Prevail Mon, 06 Aug 2018 17:29:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 By: Terry https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/#comment-37953 Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:14:06 +0000 /?p=222#comment-37953 Humm….God progresses in knowledge? I think of it more in the sense that God progresses in the amount of information he continues to posess (i.e. state of the planets he is creating, the latest doings of his creations–us included, etc.) He can do this and still be all-knowing.

Just my personal opinion. :o)

]]> By: Renee https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/#comment-12164 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=222#comment-12164 That is a weighty handout you created! It would have been a fascinating discussion to hear. Given the depths of these issues, I’m curious as to how it was received by the “chicken soup” crowd.

I taught in Relief Society for a year and a half. One of the most challenging aspects was how to reach everyone, as there is a wide range of levels of doctrinal understanding.

]]> By: Nate https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/#comment-12165 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=222#comment-12165 I think that the lesson went over quite well. I didn’t present it as “You guys have always been talking fluff, let me show you what is real.” I just presented it as “Hey lets talk about the importance of what we can learn from the D&C.” What is interesting to me is that of the two people who specifically told me that they enjoyed it, one was a new convert (literally baptized on Saturday).

]]> By: Renee https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/#comment-12166 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=222#comment-12166 Sounds like a rewarding discussion then, for teacher and participants alike. Can’t ask for much more than that! :)

]]> By: Jim https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/#comment-12167 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=222#comment-12167 Nate, I don’t have anything to add to your list–yet. I need some time to think about it. But I wonder if the High Council rep would have felt more comfortable with “God has a history” rather than “God changes.”

]]> By: Nate https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/#comment-12168 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=222#comment-12168 Jim: you are probably right. Of course, one reason that I wrote “God changes” was precisely to be a bit provacative. It gets the discussion going. Some day, I will no doubt be older and wiser.

]]> By: Dave https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/#comment-12169 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=222#comment-12169 What an interesting lesson, Nate. I especially like “Heaven is huge and Hell is tiny.” Although I suppose that could just mean Hell is very, very crowded.

]]> By: Aaron Shafovalfof https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/#comment-12170 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=222#comment-12170 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord,
or who has been his counselor?”
35 “Or who has given a gift to him
that he might be repaid?”
36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
(Romans 11)

]]> By: Adam Greenwood https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/#comment-12171 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=222#comment-12171 Great scripture, Aaron. Not that you need an excuse for posting it, but I’m wondering the connection you see between it and the forgoing discussion. Plumb your hidden depths!

]]> By: Renee https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/#comment-12172 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=222#comment-12172 Adam, perhaps the answer lies somewhere in Aaron’s webpages which discuss evangelizing to Mormons. Perhaps he feels these scriptures should point us literally in a direction of not searching out God’s judgments and ways.

]]> By: Adam Greenwood https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/#comment-12173 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=222#comment-12173 If you’re correct, Renee, all I can say is ???

]]> By: paul https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/#comment-12174 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=222#comment-12174 The funny thing here is that biblically God is called the one who is or the translitteration to the name yhwh is or shall we say I AM….. You know the God of the bible is ephemeral, or non caporial, having no mass. think about it. he is a spirit hence not affected by gravity or time. He says that he is the begginning and the end. He sees all of time simultaniously.Does God progress?In terms of lds thinking perhaps because AS MAN IS GOD ONCE WAS

]]> By: paul https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/#comment-12175 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=222#comment-12175 The funny thing here is that biblically God is called the one who is or the translitteration to the name yhwh is or shall we say I AM….. You know the God of the bible is ephemeral, or non caporial, having no mass. think about it. he is a spirit hence not affected by gravity or time. He says that he is the begginning and the end. He sees all of time simultaniously.Does God progress?In terms of lds thinking perhaps because AS MAN IS GOD ONCE WAS

]]> By: Jim F. https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/#comment-12176 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=222#comment-12176 Paul, where does the Bible tell us that God is noncorporeal, having no mass? It tells us he is a spirit, of course, but that is a positive statement, not a negative one. It doesn’t tell us anything about whether he has a body. Likewise, where does the Bible say that God is ephemeral or that he is not effected by gravity or time? And where do we read in the Bible that God sees all of time simultaneously? Rather than literal interpretations of biblical scripture, all of the claims you make here are metaphorical interpretations of the Bible that came along well after the Bible was written.

]]> By: Clark Goble https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/mere-mormonism/#comment-12177 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=222#comment-12177 Also where is the idea that spirits aren’t body? The most popular philosophy of the time, Stoicism, has corporeal spirits.

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