Atheist Richard Dawkins sees faith in God as belief without evidence, while Christian theologians defend faith as both reasonable and empirically justified. Although they grant that the evidence for faith is incomplete, they also hold that knowledge of God is not attainable simply through empirical methods. Faith also plays a role in the Christian doctrine …
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Saving Faith The Relationship Of Faith To Knowledge Belief And Works
Atheist Richard Dawkins sees faith in God as belief without evidence, while Christian theologians defend faith as both reasonable and empirically justified. Although they grant that the evidence for faith is incomplete, they also hold that knowledge of God is not attainable simply through empirical methods. Faith also plays a role in the Christian doctrine …
Either/Or: Parables Of The Kingdom
Embodiment is essential to Mormon ontology. Even God has a body, and eternal life is lived in a physical body in a physical environment in social relationships with other embodied beings. Nevertheless, Mormon salvation discourse has not fully recognized the importance of the physical in salvation. Focusing on the kingdom of heaven opens up questions …
SL09162 Is Heavenly Mother a Member of the Godhead? [Partial]
Feminist theologians have responded to the feminist challenge to an exclusively male God by exploring the feminine attributes of God, pointing out feminine metaphors describing God, and seeking to develop a more inclusive language to speak about God. The Mormon doctrine of divine embodiment requires that Mormon theologians go further. Our teaching that God the …
The Word of God: Scripture, Revelation, and Authority
The Word of God: Scripture, Revelation, and Authority In the introduction to his book, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, Bart Ehrman tells how his scholarly studies of early New Testament manuscripts caused him to question the authority of the Bible as the word of God. Because contentious disagreements of …
Panel. Where Have all the Children Gone? Keeping the Faith, and Passing it On
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …
Why we Need the Atonement: Repentance, Forgiveness, and Freedom from Sin, Death, and the Devil
Why we Need the Atonement: Repentance, Forgiveness, and Freedom from Sin, Death, and the Devil The doctrine of the Atonement is central in Christian theology. The atoning sacrifice of Christ makes it possible for us to be reconciled with God; without the Atonement all humanity would be lost and in bondage to sin, death, and …
Is Evil Necessary?: Good, Evil, Sin, And The Nature Of Reality with additional paper on Eternal Spirits And The Necessity Of Contingency
Is Evil Necessary?: Good, Evil, Sin, And The Nature Of Reality with additional paper on Eternal Spirits And The Necessity Of Contingency The prophet Lehi asserted that “it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things.” The opposition between good and evil is often regarded as the fundamental opposition. But if evil …