Coming to the end, here are some final quotes (included with a little bit of my commentary) from Vern’s book, Dynasty of the Holy Grail (2006).  These quotes fully caught my attention: (more…)

The Twin Falls, Idaho paper, Time-News (May 31, 2007), showed on the front page headlines—Moroni being put in place on the new construction of the Twin Falls LDS temple. (more…)

Here are some more quotes from Swanson’s book, Dynasty of the Holy Grail (2006) for your consideration.  The final part 5 will be tomorrow.

I had no idea that Luther believed Jesus had sexual affairs.  I would like to get to the bottom of this accusation.  Are there any other sources?  I will be sharing John 4:27 this Sunday morning with the church family. (more…)

– Taken straight from the first page in Bruce A. Ware’s book, God’s Greater Glory: The Exalted God of Scripture and the Christian Faith(Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2004):

Whether we behold, and believe, and adore, and trust, and honor, and love the true and living God, or whether we belittle, and distort, and minimize, and diminish God as we conceive him in order to magnify and enlarge and overextend the significance of “us” — this, at bottom, is what is at stake. In a culture saturated with the esteem of the “self” and marred by the decline of Deity, we stand in need of beholding God for who he is. We need desperately to be humbled and amazed at the infinite splendor of his unrivaled Greatness and the unspeakable wealth of his lavish Goodness. We must marvel at his blinding Glory and fall astonished at his benevolent Grace. If we are to escape the culf of self and find, instead, the true meaning of life and the path of true satisfaction, if we are to give God the glory rightly and exclusively owed to him–that is, if we are to know what truly promotes both our good and his glory–we must behold God for who he is.

Now in these quotes, Vern is putting forth an orthodox LDS view of God and also some of his personal angle on soteriology.  Am I correct on this?  And one of these quotes presents the view by Magaret Toscano on God.  I am highly interested in any link that shares Margaret’s view in her words. (more…)

This morning, I desire to showcase some of Swanson’s thoughts on Mary & Heavenly Father, Jesus & Marriage, and polygamy as acceptable.  I appreciate J. Stapley’s links yesterday.  I am just wondering if there is any public and official LDS Church critique on these particular topics defended by Vern.  I tend to think Swanson squarely sits within LDS orthodoxy.  I will list here almost a dozen quotes. (more…)

This topic just won’t go away.

I am a little behind the times, but I hope to catch up on the conversation.  Back in December I was asking people in Idaho Falls if they thought Jesus was married, but Mark Butler did not not tell me about this controversial book rocking the foundations of artistic, literary circles. (more…)

Dynasty of the Holy Grail:  Mormonism’s Sacred Bloodline (Springville: Cedar Fort, Inc., 2006) by Vern Grosvenor Swanson

The newly publicized convert to Rome weighs in on Mitt Romney.

Beckwith’s conversion is one of the reasons why our church family is using the Geneva Bible this summer.