{"id":4212,"date":"2007-11-09T00:10:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T04:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2007-11-09T00:10:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T04:10:51","slug":"paradigms-lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2007\/11\/paradigms-lost-and-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradigms Lost and Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben called my attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonapologetics.org\/index.php?showtopic=29379\">this<\/a> discussion.  David Bokovoy, who is working on a PhD in Hebrew Bible at Brandeis and is the CES director in Boston, sets out this argument:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you come up against something (doctrinal, historical, etc.) that you can&#8217;t reconcile with some other (doctrinal, historical) aspect of the Church, do not come to the conclusion that the Church isn&#8217;t true.  Come to the conclusion that you have misinterpreted something.  In a later comment, he uses the example of several people who had to stop reading <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=2759\"><em>Rough Stone Rolling<\/em><\/a> because it was causing a problem for them. His argument:  what they really need to do is to reassess the assumptions they have made about who\/what Joseph Smith was and move on from there.<\/p>\n<p>The advantages of this approach should be obvious, so I won&#8217;t belabor them.  I like the way that it suggests that challenges to the faith can be used to bring us closer to the truth (such as:  a better understanding of what it means to be a prophet) instead of farther.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering how it would work in real life, however.  Anyone care to field test it, right here in the comments box, for me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben called my attention to this discussion. David Bokovoy, who is working on a PhD in Hebrew Bible at Brandeis and is the CES director in Boston, sets out this argument:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}