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I recently came across a document called MORMONISM: SAVED BY GRACE OR WORKS? that claims to debunk Evangelical claims that Latter-day Saints do not believe in being saved by grace. The document consists of a number of verses from the Book of Mormon (which does not reflect and in many places contradicts modern Mormon doctrine) and…
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My post on Elder Bednar’s talk sparked a lot of controversy on Facebook, and so I thought I would shift gears today and write about one talk that I really enjoyed with few qualifications at all. Elder Robert Daines of the Seventy’s talk Sir, We Would Like to See Jesus was a really good one.…
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General Conference used to be one of my favorite times of year. After General Conference I always used to write blog posts about talks. Some conferences I actually went through and blogged about all of them. Other times I only got to write about my highlights. My experience with and perspective on General Conference as…
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As a Jewish boy, King David was one of my heroes. I proudly wore the Star of David that was associated with him and would sing “David Melech Israel, Chai Chai Vechayam” (“David King of Israel lives and endures”) in synagogue and school. As I grew older, I fell in love with the Psalms and…
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This week as I have been thinking about my time in the LDS Church and the blessings I’ve experienced since leaving, I have been drawn to the odd healing story in Mark 8:23-25. “23 He took the blind man by the hand and brought him outside of the village. Then he spit on his eyes,…
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A few weeks ago, my wife and I visited the open house for the Feather River California temple. The temple was once one of my favorite places in the world. But since leaving the Church I have felt very differently about the temple. But I was looking forward to the temple open house experience, as…
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One comment that I have heard from several Latter-day Saints over the past year is that they can see the appeal of Protestantism, but just cannot get behind the Trinity or a view of God that does not see the Father as an embodied human being . Each of these are complicated topics that I…
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One of the things that led me towards Biblical Christianity was reading the New Testament’s repeated claims that Jesus was God before the foundations of the world were laid. My favorite such passage is Col 1:15-17 “The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven…
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Latter-day Saints revere several books of scripture in addition to the Bible. There are many verses in these books that are consistent with the Bible and that I find stirring and powerful even though I no longer believe they are scripture. But there is one verse in the Doctrine and Covenants that stands out to…