The Law When “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them” (Genesis 1:26–27). In other words, God didn’t leave wiggle room for gender affirmations deviating from his children’s biological makeup: “In the likeness of God made he him: male and female created […]
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Question: Does Isaiah say that God’s end-time servant helped to create the earth? Answer: Isaiah reveals many mysteries of God through the different literary devices he uses that come to light only through searching. Those who keep Jesus’ commandment to search Isaiah’s words diligently are bound to discover many truths embedded in his book that
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Question: Do we have any idea what the “new things” are the Lord will do that Isaiah predicts? Answer: Isaiah’s literary devices, such as word links, leave few mysteries unanswered to one who searches his words diligently. Two instances of “new tings” (Hebrew chadashot) appear in the Book of Isaiah: “The prophecies of the former
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To latter-day saints who desire to “live by every word which proceeds forth out of the mouth of God,” how many are keeping the commandment to “seek diligently to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children; and again, the hearts of the Jews unto
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How much confusion from a discordant society, chaotic world, and political and ecclesiastical leadership do we need to wake us up? When Isaiah points out our wickedness and abominations, we say, “That can’t be us! We attend church.” Well, so did others, until the very hour of their destruction. “Let’s hit on the messenger!” Well,
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Question: Does the “first estate” mentioned in Jude 1:6 and “second estate” in Abraham 3:26 mean that God’s children get just one chance at eternal life, or are there multiple mortalities or probationary states? Answer: In Part One of my answer, I laid out the larger picture of God’s plan of salvation and exaltation from
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Question: Does the “first estate” mentioned in Jude 1:6 and “second estate” in Abraham 3:26 mean that God’s children get just one chance at eternal life, or are there multiple mortalities or probationary states? Answer: In Part One, I laid out the larger picture of God’s plan of salvation and exaltation from scriptures presently available.
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We may have noticed that when Book of Mormon prophets make predictions about the time preceding the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, they base them on the words of Isaiah. Nephi, Jacob, and Jesus, for example, quote a third of the Book of Isaiah as they interpret, nuance, or expand upon different aspects of Isaiah’s
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In our day, as in Book of Mormon times, what the scriptures depict as an “eternal hatred” is manifesting itself in a cruel vindictiveness on the part of those who—like the Lamanites—believe they have been “wronged,” “robbed,” and dispossessed. But having “hardened their hearts against the Lord,” “they understood not the dealings of the Lord”
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Question: Does the “first estate” mentioned in Jude 1:6 and “second estate” in Abraham 3:26 mean that God’s children get just one chance at eternal life, or are there multiple mortalities or probationary states? Answer: In Part One of my answer, I laid out the larger picture of God’s plan of salvation and exaltation from
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Question: Does the “first estate” mentioned in Jude 1:6 and “second estate” in Abraham 3:26 mean that God’s children get just one chance at eternal life, or are there multiple mortalities or probationary states? Answer: To get to the heart of this question, it is important to first perceive the big picture of God’s plan
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As Isaiah is the first prophet to address the “line-upon-line” principle of learning, his words are key to understanding what it is. In an end-time prophecy directed at the “drunkards of Ephraim,” their straying prophets and erring seers (Isaiah 28:1, 7), he decries their failure to advance beyond the infant stage of learning and their
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