Tag: Psalm 23
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Overcoming fear by developing a righteous fear of God
Saint Francis of Assisi writes, “It is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life.” To this list of paradoxes, we could add, “It is in fearing God that we no longer need to be afraid.” It’s by…
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Paths of righteousness and wisdom
Having just finished Margaret Barker\’s \”Temple Theology\”, I am still in ancient temple mode. One of the characteristics of this older first temple tradition (pre-deuteronomic reform) was the belief in a female deity called \”wisdom\”. This seems to have been a tradition that Lehi and his family took with them to the promised land. We…
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Psalms in the Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi
I\’ve been fascinated recently by the influence of the Psalms in the Book of Mormon. This paper by John Hilton III is a useful resource. In this post, I\’ll begin listing examples of intertextual connections. I will mostly follow the outline given by Hilton in the paper, sorted by order of appearance in the Book…
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What is the word of God? — Part 1
I\’ve been thinking a lot about the \”word of God\” — what it really is and what it means to \”hold to the rod.\” In these posts (post 1 and post 2) I presented an idea that the \”iron rod\” depicted in Lehi\’s dream might be something other than a handrail, as is commonly assumed. …