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New Testament 297

    Matthew 24:45-51 Compare Luke 12:41:46   What is the best way to prepare for the unexpected day of the Lord’s return?   We should prepare for it the same way we should prepare for the unexpected but certain day of our own deaths.   We should be doing what we’re supposed to be [Read More...]

Persecution of Christians spikes in Pakistan, while U.S. foreign aid continues unabated

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/...   Posted from Park City, Utah    

New Testament 296

    Matthew 24:37-44 Compare Matthew 24:17-18; 25:13; Mark 13:33, 35; Luke 12:39-40; 17:26-36   Life goes on in its old familiar rut, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year.   Until it doesn’t.   “When does God laugh?” goes the saying.  “When humans make plans.”   I don’t know [Read More...]

Have astronomers just discovered Hell?

    This planet, from its description, sounds like a promising candidate:   https://www.newscientist.com/article/...   Posted from Park City, Utah  

This Friday, on the campus of Utah Valley University

    I’m going to try to make it, but may not be able to.  So I would love to hear a report or two.   Posted from Park City, Utah    

New Testament 294-295

    Mark 13:33-37 Luke 21:34-36 Compare Matthew 24:42-51; 25:13-15; Luke 12:38, 40; 19:12-13   As the saying goes, “When the time to perform arrives, the time for preparation has passed.”   We all know this, but — at least, if you’re anything like me — we also all violate the principle time after time [Read More...]

Suppression of documents as a way of doing objective history?

    Critics’ responses to my post regarding Prof. Anthony Sweat’s recent lecture have, on the whole, been entirely consistent with Richard Bushman’s astute observation:   “Secular historians are . . . more inclined than Mormons to suppress source material from Joseph’s closest associates.”   And Professor Bushman was writing about historians.  The typical critic is far less balanced [Read More...]

“5 times Muslims saved Jews during the Holocaust”

    Five good stories, brought to my attention by Jabra Ghneim:   https://stepfeed.com/more-categories/...   Posted from Park City, Utah    

New Testament 292-293

    Matthew 24:29-36 Mark 13:24-32 Luke 21:25-33   “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”   Maybe so.  But I’ve watched a few TV preachers who seemed pretty confident that they knew the year, if not the month.   Posted from Park City, Utah    

“BYU professor discusses ‘Tangible Interactions with Book of Mormon Objects’”

    It seems to me that critics of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon are confronted by a very difficult challenge in the primary source documents and early accounts of the Restoration — such that they have to devote a great deal of time and effort to attempts to explain those documents away, to [Read More...]