{"id":49472,"date":"2025-03-30T09:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T15:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=49472"},"modified":"2025-03-30T09:26:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T15:26:18","slug":"joseph-smith-and-the-ancient-theology-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/joseph-smith-and-the-ancient-theology-conclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Smith and the Ancient Theology: Conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I wanted to wrap up a few more thoughts I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2025\/02\/the-apostasy-and-greek-philosophy-introduction\/\">in my last post<\/a>, but at the request of the TS bloggers, I put them over at the Juvenile Instructor. So you can check them out over there. <a href=\"https:\/\/juvenileinstructor.org\/bh-roberts-on-plato-and-the-apostasy\/\">One<\/a> on BH Roberts&#8217;s problematic claims of Platonism corrupting Christianity, <a href=\"https:\/\/juvenileinstructor.org\/stephen-webb-on-platonic-corruption\/\">another<\/a> noting problems with Stephen Webb talking about that issue, and finally <a href=\"https:\/\/juvenileinstructor.org\/restoring-what-was-lost-the-endowment\/\">one<\/a> highlighting the endowment as indicative that JS was seeking to restore what he believed was LOST to the Bible, rather than focusing on biblical practice itself. Greek mystery rites were very important to the concept of the ancient theology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I wanted to wrap up a few more thoughts I mentioned in my last post, but at the request of the TS bloggers, I put them over at the Juvenile Instructor. So you can check them out over there. One on BH Roberts&#8217;s problematic claims of Platonism corrupting Christianity, another noting problems with Stephen Webb talking about that issue, and finally one highlighting the endowment as indicative that JS was seeking to restore what he believed was LOST to the Bible, rather than focusing on biblical practice itself. Greek mystery rites were very important to the concept of the ancient theology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latter-day-saint-thought"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49472","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\/10406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49475,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49472\/revisions\/49475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}