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Tag Archives: Repentance
The Grace Club
My daughter took The Not Even Once Club book off my shelf and wanted me to read it as a bedtime story. I can’t blame her: it has fun and inviting pictures. I told her it was not a book I … Continue reading
The Good News of Repentance?
In the December 2013 Ensign, Brian D. Garner of the Church Correlation Department wrote a five-page article titled “The Good News of Repentance” (pp. 40-44). As I was reading this piece—subtitled “There is great joy in heaven whenever we repent … Continue reading
Mormons and Evangelicals Talk of Christ
On November 15 (2013), evangelical author (and seminary president emeritus) Richard Mouw addressed 2,000 young Mormons at Utah Valley University. As reported in the Deseret News’ “Evangelical leader says commonality with Mormons deeper than differences,” Dr. Mouw emphasized his discovery … Continue reading
Posted in Baptism, Book of Mormon, Forgiveness, Jesus Christ, Repentance
Tagged Baptism, Blood Atonement, Book of Mormon, Born again, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Forgiveness, Joseph Fielding Smith, Joseph Smith, LDS Church, LDS Manuals, Mormon Church Manuals, Mormon Scripture, Mormonism, Repentance, Richard Mouw, Spencer W. Kimball
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Feeling Lucky? The Probability of Exaltation
I just read Odds Are, You’re Going to be Exalted by LDS author Alonzo L. Gaskill (2008, Deseret Book). In this slim volume Mr. Gaskill seeks to reassure Latter-day Saints that even though they are not actually doing “all [they] … Continue reading
Posted in Afterlife, Salvation
Tagged 2 Nephi 25:23, Alonzo Gaskill, Eternal progression, Forgiveness, Repentance
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If proper Mormon baptism is an absolute prerequisite for divine forgiveness, Christians are deluded and have never had a sin forgiven by God
In The Religious Educator, Mark D. Woodbury, director of the Reno Nevada Institute of Religion, writes: The good news is that there is repentance. Repentance is a great gift from God; indeed, the scriptures teach us that Christ “hath risen … Continue reading