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Shulem, what are your thoughts on Joseph Smith's restoration of the parts of the outer ring missing from the hypocephalus?

To me the big difference between history as it really happened, and any other kind of history, is that what happened once could happen again, but what is only imagined to have happened may well be impossible. So one can sometimes draw useful lessons from actual history, lessons that one could not h...

Such is the message in the “Explanatory Introduction” of the 1921 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants: “Certain lessons, entitled “Lectures on Faith,” which were bound in with the Doctrine and Covenants in some of its former issues, are not included in this edition. Those lessons were prepared fo...

Excellent letter. Muhlestein has no intention to engage. Ritner pointed out a million things in the podcast series some of us listened to. Muhlestein mentions an item or two, without mentioning Ritner, and without an attempt to engage what specifically was being said, and then complains about the l...

The LDS Church removed the lectures from the Doctrine and Covenants in the 1921 edition, with an explanation that the lectures "were never presented to nor accepted by the Church as being otherwise than theological lectures or lessons". (See Introduction, 1921 edition.) What is any scripture but the...

I’ll feel a lot better once the Facsimiles are finally pulled from LDS canon. I need that to happen as part of my healing process. Shulem, what was the fall out or blow-back the LDS church got when the leadership unilaterally de-canonized the Lectures on Faith? Could the LDS church survive trying t...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2020/08/scholarly-support-for-the-book-of-abraham.html In the comments section Peterson baldly declares that Gee and Muhlstein's Egyptology views are mainstream!!!! He literally says that..... Well, why can't we find any mainstream Egyptologists lecturing w...

This is an outstanding thread, and the OP throws down the gauntlet as well as I have ever seen it interated. Mozeltov, Philo Sofee! The posts in response by Kishkumen and Physics Guy are spot on. I particularly like the flare of the analogy: "Wine from a dusty bottle with a fancy label actually tast...

God is, in the Mormon postulation, eternal at least in respect to this point in time. God has been God going back from now far enough in time, it does not matter to us when eons ago he was not God. And he will be God henceforth and forever. That is his Mormon eternity. God has been since before the ...

https://interpreterfoundation.org/raising-the-abrahamic-discourse-an-essay-on-the-nature-of-dialogues-about-the-book-of-abraham/?unapproved=333034&moderation-hash=56945f8913ce3cd0c9e913592c9e6c57#comment-333034 "Further, a sad aspect of these online communications has been the efforts to just be di...