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Israel’s Neighbors

33 pp., a typed transcript of a talk given on February 24, 1965. A discussion of the religious and cultural impact of Egypt, Babylon and other neighbors on events in Israel. — Midgley Listen to recording: Part 1 Part 2 [Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3] This recording is also …

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The Early Christian Church

The Early Christian Church in the Light of Some Newly Discovered Papyri from Egypt (Provo: BYU Extension Publications, 1964): 20 pp. An address delivered to the BYU Tri-Stake Fireside, March 3, 1964, which draws attention to the contents of some of the Coptic Nag Hammadi materials. — Midgley Listen to recording: MP3 [Right-click (cntrl-click for …

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Eschatology

October 1960 Part I.  The Strange State of Christianity in 1960 Since World War II there has been a “new look” in religion.  It is sometimes referred to as the “Neo-Orthodoxy.”  Its salient characteristic is a strong emphasis on eschatology. What is eschatology?  A parable can explain it: There was once a man who went …

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Egypt and Joseph Smith

1.     What is the Prophets attraction to Egypt? He was not attracted to it—he was lead to it.  Though no one realized it in 1830, Palestine was very much in the zone of Egyptian influence, economically and culturally, in 6000 B.C.  That had to show in the record and the Book of Mormon clearly reveals …

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Expository Times

October 1983 p. 8   T.J. Gorringe “Does Jesus help me because he is the Son of God, or is he the Son of God because he helps me?”  (Rudolf Bultmann’s famous question) p. 9   “All the NT metaphors cannot be properly understood except against the OT and Jewish background.” “Redemption is a metaphor from the …

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Ancient Ordinances

Temple Endowments: SYRIAC MANUSCRIPT: Bishop and clergy from prayer circle behind veil and ask all to be reconciled or withdraw. Records indicate that the apostles and their wives met in a circle around Jesus who performed at the altar.  The 12 repeated after Jesus, the “ordinances which lead to progression.”  The 12 stood in the …

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Eduard Meyer’s Comparison of Mohammed & Joseph Smith

G-2 Report No. 4 In this report we follow Eduard Meyer’s Ursprung und Geschichte der Mormonen. (1912) Why? Eduard Meyer (1855-1930): “His Geschichte des Altertums is considered to be the last word in modern historiography and the most perfectly documented and soundly reasoned resumé of what is actually known about the peoples of antiquity.”  (Enciclopedia …

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Evolution: A Convenient Fiction

G-2 Report, No. 3 N. Webster:  Evolution is “a manifestation of related events or ideas in an orderly succession, as in a process of growth….This theory, according to which the higher forms of animal life are derived from the lower…holds that all animals and plants are descendants of a very few simple organisms (or perhaps …

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The God of the Christian Doctors

The Index Volume (No. 219) of the Latin Patrologia contains hundreds of references to passages in the Church Fathers dealing with the nature of God. The doctors are in agreement on the following points: 1.   The Existence of God Men believe naturally and spontaneously in God.  The knowledge of God is instinctive; it comes …

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The God of the Philosophers

Thales (d. 546 B.C.): “Thales says that the God of the Universe (cosmos) is Mind (Nous), and that the Universe (to pan-“everything”) is alive and full of divine power (daemons); also that the basic element of water pervades all things through God’s divine animating power.” “And some say that Spirit is mixed in with everything; …

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