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by _Mike Reed
Tue Feb 02, 2016 5:00 am
Forum: Celestial Forum
Topic: A Lost Journal of Joseph Smith Jr.
Replies: 12
Views: 5186

Re: A Lost Journal of Joseph Smith Jr.

Sure seems like it.
by _Mike Reed
Tue Feb 02, 2016 4:34 am
Forum: Celestial Forum
Topic: A Lost Journal of Joseph Smith Jr.
Replies: 12
Views: 5186

Re: A Lost Journal of Joseph Smith Jr.

Tobin wrote:Thanks for the heads up Mike. I wasn't taking this thread seriously, but it's nice to know Darrick is still around. I'll be sure to lock my doors tonight. You never know what this guy will do.

Just a guess... but... yeah.
by _Mike Reed
Tue Feb 02, 2016 4:17 am
Forum: Celestial Forum
Topic: A Lost Journal of Joseph Smith Jr.
Replies: 12
Views: 5186

Re: A Lost Journal of Joseph Smith Jr.

Have a hunch... maybe it is revelation telling me so, I don't know... but the said "lost journal" smacks of Darrick T. Evanson. He posts here occasionally... usually under a different avatar... just as he has changed his name numerous times in real life.
by _Mike Reed
Tue Jun 23, 2015 5:13 am
Forum: Celestial Forum
Topic: New Podcast interview on my book
Replies: 2
Views: 3048

New Podcast interview on my book

Banishing the Cross. Pardon the distortion (knocking sound) from my headset, but I thought it was otherwise a great interview. http://www.mormondiscussionpodcast.org/ ... the-cross/
by _Mike Reed
Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:07 am
Forum: Celestial Forum
Topic: The virgin birth of Christ.
Replies: 128
Views: 28871

Re: The virgin birth of Christ.

But I do not know your intention. Could be another proposal that religion is all about rape. (?) This paper developed over the years. Started with apologetic interest/with an academic slant. Then I developed it after I stopped being an apologist and active in the LDS Church. So I guess my intention...
by _Mike Reed
Tue Feb 10, 2015 2:43 am
Forum: Celestial Forum
Topic: The virgin birth of Christ.
Replies: 128
Views: 28871

Re: The virgin birth of Christ.

For what it is worth... the intent of my post was not to disprove any particular religion. I wished to simply show that Scripture doesn't settle the matter.
by _Mike Reed
Tue Feb 10, 2015 2:36 am
Forum: Celestial Forum
Topic: The virgin birth of Christ.
Replies: 128
Views: 28871

Re: The virgin birth of Christ.

Of course one can wonder if Jesus was conceived by another man. That is an obvious possibility. I find it bizarre to try to establish that possibility by ambiguity in the text. The text does not determine the event. Indeed. The text does not settle the matter. The matter was only "settled"...
by _Mike Reed
Wed Feb 04, 2015 6:10 am
Forum: Celestial Forum
Topic: The virgin birth of Christ.
Replies: 128
Views: 28871

Re: The virgin birth of Christ.

Christianity unique and distinguished from pagan. I am unsure if that project makes sense. Both Christian and Roman religion are human belief systems which relate to similar sets of human concerns. There are a variety of ways to deal with some concerns . Christianity has some distinguishing ideas b...
by _Mike Reed
Tue Feb 03, 2015 8:19 pm
Forum: Celestial Forum
Topic: The virgin birth of Christ.
Replies: 128
Views: 28871

Re: The virgin birth of Christ.

Hieros Gamos: The Problem of Virginal Conception [1] [S]ince Celsus has introduced the Jew disputing with Jesus, and tearing in pieces, as he imagines, the fiction of His birth from a virgin, comparing the Greek fables about Danae, and Melanippe, and Auge, and Antiope, our answer is, that such lang...
by _Mike Reed
Wed Jan 14, 2015 4:45 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: The Mopologists Smear Blair Hodges Again
Replies: 30
Views: 4696

Re: The Mopologists Smear Blair Hodges Again

They won't give it, but you are doing the right thing. Yeah... I doubt they would give me permission too. And I wouldn't blame them. I know that I said some things on that list that I regret. Anyway... just throwing out the reminder (to whom it may concern) that we don't always have the stacked-dec...