Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1232

Cur Deus Homo? Why did God become human?

      “He [God] did not create the humans — He did not become one of them and die among them by torture — in order to produce candidates for Limbo, ‘failed’ humans.  He wanted to make Saints; gods; things like Himself.” C. S. Lewis, “Screwtape Proposes a Toast,” The Screwtape Letters    

“Exhibit Highlights Women in the Scriptures”

    http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article...    

The threat posed by ISIS to America’s Muslims, and to others

    The horrific ISIS-related beheadings of innocent Westerners in Iraq and Algeria, the abortive ISIS-encouraged plot to behead random people in Australia, and today’s beheading, by a recent convert to Islam, of a 54-year-old woman working in an Oklahoma food processing plant — such stories are very disturbing on multiple levels.   They’re intended to [Read More...]

2 Nephi 3

    Today’s reading, 2 Nephi 3, has bothered some because of the remarkable specificity of its prophecy of Joseph the Seer, who would be named after his father.   Joseph Smith Jr. and Joseph Smith Sr., right?   Get it?   And that prophecy has caused certain critics a great deal of merriment because, [Read More...]

“‘What thank they the Jews?’ (2 Nephi 29:4): A note on the name ‘Judah’ and Antisemitism”

    Today is the 113th Friday in a row that Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published at least one article:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/what...   Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture was founded roughly 114.5 weeks ago.    

“Romney 2016 is for real”

    ¡Basta!   Enough of this syrupy, sentimental praise for Barack Obama!   Now back to advocating my troglodyte political positions:   http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/romne...   (Whew.  That feels so much better.)    

In which I praise President Obama

      I’ve been challenged, as penance for one of my many inadequacies and transgressions (by someone whose challenge, for specific reasons, I feel obliged to accept), to say something positive about President Obama on my blog.   That’s easier for me to do than she might expect, so I’m going to offer not [Read More...]

An article by William Lane Craig on science and religion

    Here’s a lucid and not overly long discussion of the topic.  I don’t agree with absolutely everything in it, but it’s a useful overview:   http://www.reasonablefaith.org/what-i...    

A little modern dance — like you’ve probably never seen it

    I’m not, to put it mildly, a dance aficionado.  But this really caught my attention.  Watch the video:   http://www.boredpanda.com/waltz-on-th...    

2 Nephi 1

    With today’s reading, 2 Nephi 1, we enter into an entirely different book within the Book of Mormon — its second.   That fact in itself is interesting.   No great lapse of time separates the end of 1 Nephi from the beginning of 2 Nephi.  No significant event marks the division.  Indeed, [Read More...]