Listen instead to the angels of hope and to the source of all hope, that being, Jesus Christ-the only true source of hope… Each one of you is a choice son or daughter of God, and you were created in his image. “At times you may hear the demons of inadequacy whispering in your ears that you cannot do this. God = Elohim El is God and im = plural of the word. Skinner, To Become Like God: Witnesses of Divine Potential, Deseret Book, 2016, 88). Andrew Skinner teaches that it literally means, “He will cause to be” (Andrew C. Lord = Yahweh is derived from the causative form of the verb that means to be, to exist. Lord God (found more than 200 times in the Old Testament) Hearts waxed hard = Pass from one state to another ( Websters 1828 Dictionary).Įars dull of hearing, eyes cannot see = Were once a covenant-keeping people but were now covenant breakers (see Isaiah 6:10, Jeremiah 5:21, and Ezekiel 12:2). ( Lectures on Faith, Lecture Second, 27). “Fourthly, God also conversed with Cain after he has slain Abel. “Thirdly, God conversed with man after he cast him out of the garden. From this we learn that, though man did transgress, he was not deprived of the previous knowedge which he had of the existence of God. “Secondly, God conversed with him after his transgression. “First, when man was created, he stood in the presence of God and had a perfect knowledge of God.
and so from father to child the knowledge was communicated as extensively as the knowledge of his existence was known for it was by this means, in the first instance, that men had a knowledge of his existence” ( Lectures on Faith, Lecture Second, 28). “What testimony had the immediate descendants of Adam, in proof of the existence of God? The testimony of their father. Valletta, “I Have a Question: The Length of the Lives of the Ancient Patriarchs,” Liahona, Mar.
They are not mutually exclusive, nor do they exhaust the possibilities” (Thomas R. “All these factors are feasible explanations. “Others have suggested that the earth’s environment may have changed radically at the time of the Flood and that this accounts for the decrease in longevity immediately thereafter (see Moses 8:17). Some have interpreted 2 Nephi 2:21 as referring to those living before the Flood: ‘The days of the children of men were prolonged, according to the will of God, that they might repent while in the flesh.’ Others have suggested that it was righteousness that increased the length of their lives. “The question is not completely resolved in scripture, but several possible answers are implied.
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