David Journal

Tag: insights

  • Agency and consecration

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    In the temple this morning I caught on to the significance of the words “for your sake” as Heavenly Father placed a curse on the earth so that it would bring forth thorns, thistles, briars, and noxious weeds after Adam and Eve choose to take the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and…

  • Thou shalt surely die

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    Adam and Eve were warned that if they ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil they would surely die. We instinctively interpret death as referring to physical death—the separation of our body and our spirit—but it also applies to spiritual death—the separation of us from our Heavenly Father. Lucifer contended…

  • A sacred trust

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    I never really thought about modern contributions to the Book of Mormon but it was modern members of the church who have worked to bring corrections ensuring consistency with the original manuscript and it was modern people who broke things into chapter and verse (not always correctly in my opinion) and who provided the chapter…

  • The faulty implications of “after”

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    Laura really wanted to go to the Festival of Trees today (last day) and so we went this afternoon. Unfortunately after we arrived there I realized I didn’t have my wallet and we weren’t able to find another way to pay so we just had to go home. The greatest part of that is that…

  • What’s in a name?

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    As I read the words of Christ regarding the name of His church it made me think of how we have referred to the church in these latter days and I realized how getting people to use a different name for the church is a subtle attack by the devil to undermine the church. It…

  • Adam’s actual choice

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    I’ve always looked at the voice Adam made in the garden as a choice between two commandments but I realized that it was actually larger than that. A choice between two commandments would be a coin flip, neither choice is ideal but either choice leads to keeping one of two. Adam’s choice was not so…

  • Because I am a Lamanite

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    Samuel pointed out to the people of Zerahemlah that they were rejecting his message because of who he was. They were predisposed to ignore anything that didn’t come from a Nephite. (Not that that’s a true excuse since they also rejected the words of Nephi.) it is human nature to have our biases. Republicans are…

  • An insight on Eve

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    In the temple this morning the thought struck me that Eve didn’t offer Adam the fruit because Satan wanted her to, it was because she already realized then the fact which later convinced Adam to partake. She offered Adam the fruit because she knew that she would have to leave Eden and that Adam would…

  • Understanding the Fall

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    It’s been a while since I’ve had as profound a doctrinal insight during scripture study as I had this morning.  It really helped me understand the nature of the fall that is a precursor to activating or growth in mortality.

  • What changed in the Fall?

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    …they had become carnal, sensual, and devilish, by nature… Alma 42:10 Perhaps I am reading too much into this but it sounds like the result of the fall was that human nature changed to become carnal, sensual, and devilish—as is before that, in their state of innocence, they were motivated by something other than base…