Living the Gospel a moment at a time
Human Excellence There exist today some truly remarkable examples of human knowledge and accomplishment. For example, a polyglot is someone who is fluent in several different languages. How many languages
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From Elder David A. Bednar on receiving revelation: “Somehow, someway in the culture of the church, not in the doctrine, but in the culture of the church we have come
Imagine with me that you’re sitting in the chapel. The meeting has just started. The youth speaker stands up and begins reading her talk word-for-word from a piece of paper,
Many people have taken up the study of ancient languages such as Greek and Hebrew to understand the Bible better. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. One can learn
In the last few blog posts, I’ve hopefully made sure that everyone is aware that the Church is not perfect, its leaders are not perfect, and our standard works are
My last two posts have attempted to explain a couple of concepts: don’t expect the leaders of the Church to be infallible, and the scriptures themselves are not even perfect.
In the scriptures, there are a handful of passages that people of different faiths interpret in a wide variety of ways. One of those seems to be Matthew 16:15-18. Let’s
Much of the Christian world today believes in a closed canon, and rejects the idea of continuing revelation in these, the latter days. This is perhaps because of scriptures like
Scriptures are a great reference to the standards of the Gospel. They teach us wonderful principles about how to live. However, they do not contain all the wisdom and knowledge
In my research, I have found many valuable resources that will be of great help to those folks who really want to understand absolute truth, where it comes from, and what it is. … Continue readingHow to Discover and Determine Objective Truth