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The Kingdom of God

… The Lord has commanded us to seek “first the kingdom of God” (Matthew 6:33). Just what the kingdom consists of, … beyond our personal spiritual well-being and status in God’s Church and celestial realm? Clearly the identification … importance of the physical, embodied dimension of human existence. The religion of the Restoration could not focus on …

The “Same” Organization That Existed in the Primitive Church

… of faith: “We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, … “sameness” between the primitive Church and the kingdom of God in latter days. Apostles Any thorough exploration of New … nor set off by any special linguistic markers that would denote a meaning distinct from its use to refer to the Twelve …

Lying for God

… probably not accepted even in antiquity as inspired by God any way which would give them normative power. … “genuine” revelations and “forged” ones. The terms merely denote relative and subjective religious bias. Scholars …

The Meaning of God’s Glory

… greatly help our understanding of the nature of God’s glory, the premortal war in heaven, Satan’s attempt to … on the Hebrew stem kbd , different forms of which can denote ‘weight’ or ‘glory.’” [6] The expression “weight of …

I See You, God

… about how I know. I have entitled my talk “I See You, God” for reasons that will become clear later. Let me frame … long,” [6] knowing that the same sweet “sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there” in eternity, … sapere , the Latin for “to taste.” These verbs for knowing denote a particularly emphatic claim to know. They speak to a …

Jacob in the Presence of God

… to be offered as a sacrifice in the presence of God forever stands as a similitude of the Atonement of God’s Only Begotten Son (see Genesis 22; Jacob 4:5). Indeed, … [4] Nevertheless, the same word is used elsewhere to denote divine messengers in several Old Testament passages …

Seeing God in His Temple

… or the Old Testament, contains several episodes in which God appears to mortals. Such an appearance is called a … of the temple’s central purposes—bringing worshippers into God’s presence—in ancient hymns of Israel that were composed … God’s presence and see him face-to-face is as old as the existence of Israel itself. We know this from the culminating …

"The Lord God Which Gathereth the Outcasts"

… groups as well as reveals the beautiful promises God proclaimed for all his children. Israel and the Stranger … metaphor of Israel as a harlot among foreigners is used to denote Israel’s apostasy. [13] Legally, Israel was to have … of unfair treatment but merely the separation that exists because of their conditions. This suggests that the …

"And God Blessed the Seventh day, and Sanctified It"

… [8] The creation of this social cosmos begins in Eden, God’s earthly garden. Further geographical areas are … was now ready for God’s divine presence, which would denote the building as a functional temple (Doctrine and … It is also true for the entire time in which this order exists in accordance with its beginning. The Task of Old …

The Role of Consequences in God’s Plan of Agency

… Defining agency as the right to “do what I want” suggests God’s children have an unfettered right to make choices in a … choices—is more important than living a choiceless existence without sin or the consequences that follow ( 2 …