Tag: 1 Corinthians 2
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"The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God … neither can he know them"
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with…
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Covenant as messenger — "[God's] strong reasoning" (Part 2 of 4)
This post is a continuation of this post, in which I looked at the description of the covenant as the messenger before God’s face as noted in Doctrine & Covenants 45. In part 2, we’ll look at the first of three phrases from Section 45 which describes how the covenant helps prepare a Zion people:…
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"No one knoweth" — Part 1
Please read this post to learn how and why I began this deep dive into Mormon 8:8. To summarize my hypothesis, I believe Moroni points to covenant themes three times in the second half of Mormon 8:8, in a display of just how tightly and subtly the aithors of the Book of Mormon embedded additional…