Search found 267 matches

by _churchistrue
Mon Sep 21, 2015 11:00 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: What is "The Truth" in the Scriptures?
Replies: 36
Views: 1596

Re: What is "The Truth" in the Scriptures?

[ All we can do may be poor word choice. I mean we may not know something, but we can choose it, via faith. Obviously other options are to reject completely or to ignore it. See this is the problem with the constraints of faith; accept you don't know and act as if you do, reject completely or ignor...
by _churchistrue
Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:32 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: What is "The Truth" in the Scriptures?
Replies: 36
Views: 1596

Re: What is "The Truth" in the Scriptures?

I was moved to put together this blog post by a question Kerry Shirts asked “What is ‘the truth’ of scripture?” “The newest Mormon rhetoric to come out, that of Terryl Givens, claims that ‘…many scriptural contradictions are only apparent, [to who?] evaporating upon closer or more contextualized re...
by _churchistrue
Sun Sep 20, 2015 5:27 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: What is "The Truth" in the Scriptures?
Replies: 36
Views: 1596

Re: What is "The Truth" in the Scriptures?

You seem exasperated by the idea of Terryl Givens to simply choose to believe it within the framework of Mormonism, but I think choosing to have faith is all we can do, when it appears impossible to know. "All we can do"? Really? How about simply deciding that we shall have to say "Q...
by _churchistrue
Sun Sep 20, 2015 4:25 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: What is "The Truth" in the Scriptures?
Replies: 36
Views: 1596

Re: What is "The Truth" in the Scriptures?

I read your blog and it got my creative juices flowing. I included a reference to your post in my blog today. m I agree with your idea of the difficullty of finding absolute truth within scripture. I think is difficult/impossible to do. You seem exasperated by the idea of Terryl Givens to simply cho...
by _churchistrue
Sun Sep 20, 2015 1:46 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: CES Letter request for grindael
Replies: 6
Views: 755

Re: CES Letter request for grindael

Grindael, I get your pm's, but when I try to reply, they get stuck in my outbox and don't go through. church, The messages stay in your "out" box until the person opens them. Then they go into your "sent" box. Just be patient. grindael probably hasn't been on the board or hasn't...
by _churchistrue
Sun Sep 20, 2015 12:18 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: CES Letter request for grindael
Replies: 6
Views: 755

Re: CES Letter request for grindael

Grindael, I get your pm's, but when I try to reply, they get stuck in my outbox and don't go through.
by _churchistrue
Sat Sep 19, 2015 11:09 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: CES Letter request for grindael
Replies: 6
Views: 755

CES Letter request for grindael

Sorry for the public post for this. I was reading a post about the CES Letter and saw that grindael of this board is working with Jeremy to follow up on FAIR's response to the CES Letter. I tried doing pm's, but it doesn't seem to work. Maybe because I'm new. I am working on a CES Letter review and ...