Re: The CES Letter
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:39 pm
Pyreaux, you touch on several different subjects here. For understanding I am wondering what you think of as an esoteric teaching and how that clarifies the Bible. I think the esoteric Christian teachings can be found in Romans in the Bible.Of course there were other varieties of esoteric teachings flowing around the Mediterranean in those centuries.Pyreaux wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:29 pmYes, but it's just that not all Christian or Mormon sects have temples or the esoteric teaching at all, which is very important to me in understanding the Bible. I do believe Canaan, Egypt, Mesopotamia have direct links to ancient Israelite temple worship, as does the New Testament Christianity, Medieval fraternities and plays. I like the seer stone narrative, but there is so much bickering over pointless things; who wouldn't believe in magic if God told you so? Like watching Field of Dreams with my dad, he doesn't like it because "God wouldn't do that", while I say "I think God can do whatever he wants." God's a moral authority, swine to polygamy, bad one day, good another. I think most people are willing to believe the world is flat if God only told them so. Atheists pretending to have Godly-moral outrage over what Joseph Smith does. Really? Do they know what God would do to, or tolerate from, a prophet, as atheists? A bit disingenuous.huckelberry wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:21 pmhello, Pyreaux
Welcome, there is more to this board than disputes but differences of views play a significant part.
I wonder if your view of this letter focuses upon minor points. Perhaps that is a drawback of the bullet points to overwhelm layout of the book I confess to not having read it.
I am puzzled why somebody would worry about translation methods, after all whatever works should be ok. What disputed history about polygamy? Well there could be details which are uncertain but the general history is clear.
Many people are aware that there are temples in the Bible. You might consider that there were people all over the world with temples. The design of the Biblical temple is like other temples for other(but perhaps culturally related) religions in the area. Of course that is not something wrong with Solomon's building. LDS temples are a bit different. That observation does not say if that difference matters. After all people all over the world of many faiths or beliefs have built temples.