Just read the Book of Mormon and UCLA Professor Fawn Brodie's bio of Smith, «
No Man Knows My History».
Of course if anyone looks up, «
No man knows my history» by Fawn M. Brodie, or «Under The Banner of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go on.
I would suggest a book called the god makers, and another called
no man knows my history.
Suggested Reading Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows; Fawn Brodie,
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith; Sally Denton, American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September, 1857; Judith Freeman, Red Water; Philip Jenkins, Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History; John D. Lee, Mormonism Unveiled: Or Life and Confession of John D. Lee and Brigham Young; Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong?
Not exact matches
I don't
know the
man, but I do
know the family and the family
history.
The
man who headed the American diplomatic mission in late 2016, Jeffrey DeLaurentis,
knew that
history of harassment well, officials said.
His story about how he made Peerless Clothing into a world leader in the production of
men's suits is a straight - ahead account of savvy business practice, exceedingly hard work, and fearlessness in the face of risk - both a valuable document for anyone building a company who wants to
know how high - wire entrepreneurship works, and an important contribution to the
history of garment manufacturing in Montreal.»
The correct category for things dealing with ancient
man will henceforth be
known as «olds» and «
history»
Either Jesus was a real
man in
history who we
know absolutely nothing about, due the the Bible's completely innaccurate and conflicting accounts, or he didn't exist at all and was a lesser god that was created based on many of the tenets of the Cult of Osiris.
I was impressed and concerned that most people do not
know the
history behind this
man that began a religion that many will die for.
Check out this link to find out about marriage to young girls claim.Very very interesting to
know.I hope everyone has the patience to study
history and reality of life centuries ago worldwide.This video also gives you references to online
history books about facts it says.Simply, the average age of marriage was very young worldwide including church approved age of consent to marry.What Mohamed did, was very common back in the days and just to let you
know, that girl was engaged to another
man and then the engagement was broken due to his disbelief which tells you that that was common back in the days.Also, the age of 6 mentioned was age of engagement not age of marriage.marriage happened a few years later.
My understanding is that she is saying that throughout
history, we
know Santa for what he is, this white bearded
man, not that he existed in person... but I can see how that could come across...
Such thinkers are
known in the
history of Islamic jurisprudence as rationalists, or
men of thought.
Nothing close will ever happen until God steps back into
history and brings His kingdom about where the foolishness of
man and evil will be punished and everyone will
know the truth.
True, every
man today who is open to experience
knows that God is absent, but only the Christian
knows that God is dead, that the death of God is a final and irrevocable event, and that God's death has actualized in our
history a new and liberated humanity.
I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a
man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious
history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't
know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).
If a new meaning of nature has pervaded modern
history, an autonomous world existing in - itself, then so likewise
man himself
no longer appears as the image of a transcendent Creator.
Whereas they pointed to the pantheon of gods in their unseen heavenly world, the Bible pointed to one who was in no way to be identified with the gods of ancient
man, but who was
known to them in the sphere of human
history as the deepest reality confronting them there.
Hatch finds their leaders — previously unfamiliar
men like Leland, Francis Asbury, and Lorenzo Dow — every bit as important in the
history of nineteenth - century Protestantism as the better
known ministers Lyman Beecher, Horace Bushnell, and Timothy Dwight.
In this connection it must be noticed that this knowledge, which we
know is unknown to us, does not stand in the same relation to contemporary
man as, for example, the
history of the 15th Dynasty in Egypt did to Leibniz.
They believe in a Church which
knows of a natural law and which aims at subjecting not only the sentiments of
men's hearts but also the concrete reality of life and
history to the law of the Gospel.
In the story of Sodom, in Genesis 18, God had ALREADY decided to destroy the city BEFORE the attempted rape of the angels — which incidentally was perpetrated mainly by heterosexuals since ALL the
men of the city were involved, and we
know that throughout
history, gays have only represented about 10 % of the population.
Not ancient myths written by ancient
men that have been butchered throughout
history to benefit who ever «
knows» the «real» word of god.
Every religious teacher should
know the origins,
history, and the destiny of
man.
The problem with the notion that your god sends natural disasters to challenge us is that it, by your definition, is omniscient and should
know that after having beset
man with numerous natural disasters throughout
history, it matters not.
This is a
man this is full of himself, you do nt let the historians
know how to write hisotry, rather you make
history that the historians write.
Then, too, it will presumably be possible to leave it an open question whether the
history of human descent as
known to us does or does not possess features which only after the Fall of the first
man can be thought of to some extent as a predominance of his pre-human past and of his environment, over a sensitivity to the world around him
no longer protected by the gift of integrity, and over his lack of adaptation to a particular milieu.
Although «in the
history of Christian peoples there has been
no lack of
men of the spirit afire and ready for martyrdom in the struggle for righteousness,» the norm of realizing the religion in all aspects of social existence can
no longer occupy a central place.
They have challenged the notion that the Biblical writers were
men of their times in respect to
history, cosmology, and physics, who wrote what they believed to be true but what is now
known to be false.
Those familiar with the Exercises will
know the form: daily meditations on the entire
history of salvation - from the creation of the angels, and their fall, to the creation of the universe and
man, and our fall, to the arrival of Christ the Great King.
In contrast to idealism, which
knows only continuity in
man's life in the Spirit, Bonhoeffer recognizes sin as a reality in
history.
A non-citizen
man who can not voice a single opinion that is not fed to him by his controllers, a
man who disdains this country, who is NOT a christian, whose mother's
history was rewritten after he ran for office (she was a
known wh * re not a «good citizen» as she is now portrayed, a
man who is a racist against whites even though he is half - white, a
man whose wife is disbarred....
The meaning of
history is the creation of the human level of existence when human level means that level where there can be indefinite increase in range and depth of values appreciated and evils distinguished; indefinite increase in range and depth of what can be
known and controlled; indefinite increase in the depth and complexity of
man's subjectivity, both conscious and unconscious.
It is the community where «the Kingdom of God impinges most unmistakably upon
history because it is the community where the judgment and the mercy of God are
known, piercing through all the pride and pretensions of
men and transforming their lives.
Consequently we
know nothing except that
man was created by God as God's personal partner in a sacred
history of salvation and perdition; that concupiscence and death do not belong to
man as God wills him to be, but to
man as a sinner; that the first
man was also the first to incur guilt before God and his guilt as a factor of
man's existence historically brought about by
man, belongs intrinsically to the situation in which the whole subsequent
history of humanity unfolds.
The fall of
man is
no longer taken as an event at the beginning of human
history, nor is the «end of
history» a literal conception of a point of time at which the world ceases to be.
It's a well
known fact ** that the first humblebrag in biblical
history was a papyrus that said: «
Man it sucks to live in such a huge, beautiful pyramid.
On the other hand, it must be reiterated that the Old Testament canon reflects the full range of the life of that people; that the spirit of Esther was provoked in their
history, again and again; that Jews have
known in their long
history one Haman after another (the most recent conspicuous Haman being Adolph Hitler); and that if Esther isn't
history or theology in any direct sense, it nevertheless informs us more richly of the life of
man and points up one of the universal deterrents to the exercise of the love of God.
The
history of God's dealings with Israel can
no longer serve as the all - embracing horizon for our understanding of God, which must now be correlated with a greatly expanded world
history, a scientific understanding of nature and
man, and a drastically altered social and ethical situation.
For how could
man truly create and constitute
history if it is necessarily
known by God.
The
men who deserted Ali and abandoned their faith became famous in
history as unbelievers and were
known as Kharijites — the people who have forsaken their faith.
Writing of
men in an old section of the South that he
knew so well Wolfe writes: «He is not a colonist, a settler, a transplanted European; during his three centuries there in the wilderness he has become native to the immense and lonely land that he inhabits; during those three centuries he has taken on the sinew and the color of that earth, he has acquired a character, a tradition, a
history of his own..
It is therefore a great mistake to discuss the prayer life of Jesus, to speak of him as a praying
man, to call him the greatest
man of prayer in
history; even historically one has
no right to do this.
If at this point in the central tragedy in our
history there had occurred the demonstration of the power and glory of the God in whom he trusted; if Elijah had come; if he who saved others had been saved; if we
know not what natural or supernatural event had taken place to deliver this soul of faith from death and further shame; then might not faith as universal loyalty and universal trust have been reconstructed among
men?
It means a fresh apprehension of the working of God in
history: a fresh and vivid realization of the God who in Christ revealed himself to
men long ago and who, still in Christ, stands ready to make himself
known in gracious power also to us and to our generation.
Blessed are the Cheesemakers I have to agree with you as
history and Jesus pointed out
man (Priests in particular) twists the Word of God to the point it
no longer is truth but dogma reflecting evil in
man.
Throughout our
known history (includes the birth of christianity) we
know that there have been religions much older than the bible,
Men wrote the bible and if you believe that all men are flawed then QED the bible is also flaw
Men wrote the bible and if you believe that all
men are flawed then QED the bible is also flaw
men are flawed then QED the bible is also flawed.
Radical theology's «new forms of faith may be seen to have an apocalyptic form: the new humanity that they proclaim dawns only at the end of all that we have
known as
history; its triumph is inseparable from the disintegration of the cosmos created by historical
man, and it calls for the reversal of all moral law and the collapse of all historical religion.
Is it because they contradict the claims of Christian Zionism, to which all true Christians, theists, and
men of good will who
know the Bible and
history subscribe?
We really do
know the mind and heart of the radiant Jesus because Jesus lives on, in His own physical reality, and in
man's
history.