Tag: Doctrine and Covenants
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30 June 2008
D&C 123Of all the phrases that I would not expect to find in the scriptures “diabolical rascality” qualifies as one of the most entertaining. The saints are commanded to publish the truth concerning all works of darkness as far as they can come to know those works. As they do so they will be prepared…
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29 June 2008
D&C 122The list of potential afflictions seems to progress form being more general to more specific and also from more benign to more potent. At the end it also goes from being things that men can control to things that are beyond the control of man (“all the elements combine to hedge up the way”).…
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28 June 2008
D&C 121I think it is vastly important to note that in his frustration here Joseph is turning to the Lord for answers. The feeling of frustration is neither evidence of nor cause for sin and despair. Instead, he turns to the Lord and supplicates for His intervention. That is the proper response to frustration –…
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27 June 2008
D&C 120I wonder if this pattern has changed at all in the last 170 years. For example, is the First Presidency still involved in the day-to-day disposition of tithing or do they leave that almost exclusively to the Presiding Bishopric? Not that it really matters – I am sure that tithing is handled today in…
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26 June 2008
D&C 119While sitting in priesthood meeting last Sunday listening to the lesson on tithing i was thinking about the fact that I have always paid my tithing, but I have never had any grand experience of being directly blessed for it. I have always had my needs met – I’m sure that paying a full…
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25 June 2008
D&C 118Four new Apostles are called to fill vacancies in the quorum (wow, that’s 1/3 of the quorum at once) including two future prophets, John Taylor and Wilford Woodruff, and one survivor of Carthage Jail, WIllard Richards, with John Page as the fourth new apostle.
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24 June 2008
D&C 117I wonder about the origin of the term “nicolaitane.” I did a search and found lots of information telling how the Nicolaitanes were a group in the early church who strove to control through manipulation. Another source claims that the Nicolaitanes essentially worshiped Nimrod (apparently also called Baal later) who was the first dominant…
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23 June 2008
D&C 116I want to be at that meeting!(The reference in Daniel is Chapter 7 verses 13, 14, and 22)
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22 June 2008
D&C 115I remember that the Saints were laying a cornerstone on the 4th of July in 1838 but I did not remember that they had been commanded to do it on that day. I also cannot remember how much error they committed on that day from the Lord’s perspective although I know that the words…
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21 June 2008
D&C 114David W. Patton is called to settle his affairs and prepare for a mission. I wonder who the others were that were denying the name of the Lord.