by kdm | Jan 4, 2023 | Today's Post
From Beverly Campbell’s book ‘Eve and the Choice Made in the Garden’ (repost of a lost entry) The Lord commanded Adam and Eve to multiply and replenish the earth while at the same time commanding them not to partake of the fruit of the tree of...
by kdm | Jan 4, 2023 | #character, agency, Modern Prophets, Revelation, The Plan, Today's Post
From ‘Eve, and the Choice Made’ a book by Beverly Campbell: ‘This Transgression Is Movement, Not Sin’ From a previous post. . . Nevertheless, Thou Mayest Choose. . . President Brigham Young explained that “it was necessary that sin...
by kdm | Jan 3, 2023 | #character, agency, Choice, Learning?, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from Beverly Campbell’s book, “Eve” and: ‘Thou Mayest Choose III’: “I, the Lord God Commanded” (Previously. . . .) To gain a true understanding of the principles inherent in the Lord’s seemingly contradictory...
by kdm | Jan 2, 2023 | #character, #discipline, Christ Ministry, spiritually strong, Today's Post
From ‘Thou Mayest Choose II’, Beverly Campbell wrote: Satan wishes to blur our knowledge of the absolutes of good and evil. The power inherent in that knowledge makes us like God. It is our choice of good over evil that makes us godlike. If the adversary...
by kdm | Jan 1, 2023 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Modern Prophets, The Plan, Today's Post
From Neal A. Maxwell: . . . In response to the angel’s amazing statement, Mary was perplexed about what lay ahead, and the birth of the Son of God through her: “And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me accoding to they word. And the...
by kdm | Dec 31, 2022 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Temple, Today's Post
From ‘One Hundred Favorite Verses to Bring You Closer to Christ,’ Shauna Humphreys shares: And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon...
by kdm | Dec 30, 2022 | agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, The Plan, Today's Post
In the book “The God Who Weeps” Fiona and Terryl Givens wrote: As William Blake said, as one of the greatest insights of the modern age, “without contraries, is no progression.” We are apparently made of the same stuff as Darwin’s...
by kdm | Dec 28, 2022 | #character, #discipline, Today's Post
Richard L. Evans wrote: Sometimes in the give and take of life we find reason for much misunderstanding, and for anger and annoyance at others—and they at us. And such situations frequently lead to feelings of acute offense, and the closing up of hearts, and...
by kdm | Dec 27, 2022 | Atonement, Christ Ministry, The Plan, Today's Post
From Tad R. Callister’s book ‘The Infinite Atonement’: The Atonement saves us all in the sense that we are all resurrected and return to God’s presence for judgment purposes without any effort on our part. It cannot, however, exalt us, unless...
by kdm | Dec 26, 2022 | #discipline, Learning?, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Fiona and Terryl Givens and their book ‘The God Who Weeps’: What challenges and conditions may come when we have passed into that undiscovered country, death, we cannot know. What we do know is that Jesus spoke in simple, hopeful terms about the...