Geerhardus Vos on God at Princeton

Here is a prophetic message for your serious consideration and meditation.

I worship this infinitely unique, majestic Jehovah Most High over all gods.

This is the kind of prophetic message that I wish would come out of Temple Square to strengthen all the bishops.

Divine Nature

I was at one of the local wards last night for roundtable training as a cubscout leader.

It was hard for me to concentrate on the training because I kept thinking of the poster with the sketch of the pretty, little girl up on the classroom wall.

Divine Nature

I have inherited divine qualities which I will strive to develop.

In the teaching of the children in our community, how am I suppose to interpret this?

Do you believe this about the Christ?

In preparation for Easter . . .

I am the way to God: I did not come

To light a path, to blaze a trail, that you

May simply follow in my tracks, pursue

My shadow like a prize that’s cheaply won.

My life reveals the life of God, the sum

Of all he is and does. So how can you,

The sons of night, look on me and construe

My way as just the road for you to run?

My path takes in Gethsemane, the Cross,

And stark rejection draped in agony.

My way to God embraces utmost loss:

Your way to God is not my way, but me.

Each other path is dismal swamp, or fraud.

I stand alone: I am the way to God.

I am the truth of God: I do not claim

I merely speak the truth, as though I were

A prophet (but no more), a channel, stirred

By Spirit power, of purely human frame.

Nor do I say that when I take his name

Upon my lips, my teaching cannot err

(Though that is true). A mere interpreter

I’m not, some prophet-voice of special fame.

In timeless reaches of eternity

The Triune God decided that the Word,

The self-expression of the Deity,

Would put on flesh and blood—and thus be heard.

The claim to speak the truth good men applaud.

I claim much more: I am the truth of God.

I am the resurrection life. It’s not

As though I merely bear life-giving drink,

A magic elixir which (men might think)

Is cheap because though lavish it’s not bought.

The price of life was fully paid: I fought

With death and black despair; for I’m the drink

Of life. The resurrection morn’s the link

Between my death and endless life long sought.

I am the firstborn from the dead; and by

My triumph, I deal death to lusts and hates.

My life I now extend to men, and ply

Them with the draught that ever satiates.

Religion’s page with empty boasts is rife:

But I’m the resurrection and the life.

– D. A. Carson

American “prophets”

Tim tells us about the prophecy of David Wilkerson.

What does LDS Prophet Thomas S. Monson say about the American events to unfold?

Is Mormonism Losing Ground In Idaho?

First, my wife and I spent time last night discussing the front page headline article of USA Today.

Then I looked at this chart, today.

I am curious. Anyone know?

March theme song @ B.B.C.

“Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted” (Words by Thomas Kelly, 1804; Music by Geistliches Volkslied, 1850.)

Stricken, smitten and afflicted

See Him dying on the tree!

‘Tis the Christ by man rejected;

Yes, my soul, ‘tis He, ‘tis He!

‘Tis the long expected prophet,

David’s Son, yet David’s Lord;

Proofs I see sufficient of it:

‘Tis a true and faithful Word.

Tell me, ye who hear Him groaning,

Was there ever grief like His?

Friends through fear His cause disowning,

Foes insulting his distress:

Many hands were raised to wound Him,

None would interpose to save;

But the deepest stroke that pierced Him

Was the stroke that Justice gave.

Ye who think of sin but lightly,

Nor suppose the evil great,

Here may view its nature rightly,

Here its guilt may estimate.

Mark the Sacrifice appointed?

See Who bears the awful load!

‘Tis the Word, the Lord’s Anointed,

Son of Man, and Son of God.

Here we have a firm foundation,

Here the refuge of the lost.

Christ the Rock of our salvation,

Christ the Name of which we boast.

Lamb of God for sinners wounded!

Sacrifice to cancel guilt!

None shall ever be confounded

Who on Him their hope have built.

Nauvoo Polygamy (2008) by George Smith

Interesting book.

Page 291:

Of Young’s fifty-five marriages, fifteen ended in separation or divorce.

And what about this from Brigham Young?

He told publisher Horace Greeley in 1859 that he had “some aged women sealed” to him, in which instances he no more thought of them as wives, as he put it, “then I would my Grand Mother.”

How come Grand Mother has nothing to say about all this?

Celestial Polygamy Question from Idaho Falls

Celestial polygamy

Public Forum Letter

Salt Lake Tribune

05/09/2008

   I am a mainstream Mormon. Thomas S. Monson is the president of my church, headquartered in Salt Lake City. Yet I am a polygamist with the blessing of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
    I married my first wife in the temple. I married my second wife in the temple while still temple-married to my first wife. I was divorced on Earth, but not in the next life. My second wife has asked the church to cancel my first wife’s marriage to me, but they say it isn’t necessary because my first wife needs the blessings of a husband. They say I can have two wives. My second wife asked why her marriage to her first husband was canceled by the church but mine wasn’t. She was told that only men can have more than one spouse in the church. In heaven I will have two wives; maybe more if I am worthy. Mormon men know they will have more than one wife in the celestial kingdom. It’s doctrinal.
    Why does the church distance itself from polygamy? Why do they say they don’t teach it or believe in it anymore? Polygamy started with Joseph Smith and is going strong with Thomas S. Monson. I wish the church would be honest.

    Dana Miller
    Idaho Falls, Idaho

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Did a General Authority answer this question?