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Heavenly Ascents News
Just wanted to give you a brief update of some things I’ve been doing lately. I posted (a couple of weeks back now) some material over at The Millennial Star about the reforms of King Josiah and the Deuteronomists and how these reforms may have affected the theological themes found in the Old Testament we [...]
Also posted in Early Christianity, Early Judaism, News and Events, Scholarly Conferences Tagged BYU, conference, ExpoundLDS, lead plates, Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Provo, St. Andrews, Symposium Comments closed
Did Jesus Deny the Possibility of Heavenly Ascents? (John 3:13)
If so, then maybe I should change the name of my blog!! A few people have been asking me whether I plan to do regular posts on New Testament Sunday School topics, as I had been doing with the OT. I would have to say that my tentative answer is either “maybe” or “probably not.” [...]
Also posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Doctrinal Issues, Early Christianity, Scripture, Sunday School Lessons Tagged Heavenly Ascents, Jesus, John, New Testament, Scripture Comments closed
Psalm 24: Temple Gates and Guardians
I have written a new post over at The Millennial Star looking at Psalm 24 and the possibility that it describes an ancient temple ritual in which pilgrims to the temple engaged in a question-and-answer dialogue with priests that acted as gatekeepers at the temple gates. If interested, please check out the post at: http://www.millennialstar.org/psalm-24-temple-gates-and-guardians/
Also posted in Doctrinal Issues, Heavenly Ascents, Scripture, Temple Tagged gatekeepers, New Year Festival, Priesthood, Psalms, ritual, Scripture, Temple Comments closed
Sarah Hinze: Call for Pre-Birth Accounts
About two-and-a-half years ago, I wrote a post for this blog that looked at the work of Sarah Hinze, an author that has written a number of books on the subject of “pre-birth experiences”: accounts of individuals who claim to have memories of their life before their birth or to have received communications from a [...]
Posted in LDS Interest Tagged pre-birth, Pre-existence, pre-mortal existence, Sarah Hinze Comments closed
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