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Scott in Tempe: I know the church is true
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General musings about mostly national politics, religion, and how I try to manage my day to day life. Friday, December 26, 2014. I know the church is true. As a follow up post to this one. That so far I've only been able to get part of the way through. Ehrman, Bart D. (2014-03-25). How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (p. 132). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. Says it another way:. Joseph Smith comes out boldly:. And also those to whom these commandments were given, might ...
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Scott in Tempe: July 2014
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General musings about mostly national politics, religion, and how I try to manage my day to day life. Saturday, July 5, 2014. Some Thoughts on History. About six months ago, the LDS stake. This is one reason why I think family history is so powerful. Family history is the art of giving life to your own ancestors, no matter how obscure they were to the world at large, they definitely have a preeminent role in your own personal existence and largely had a more interesting life than you realize. In the inte...
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Scott in Tempe: March 2015
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General musings about mostly national politics, religion, and how I try to manage my day to day life. Sunday, March 22, 2015. Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: My Paraphrase of Adam Miller's Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans. But I think Mormons are too quick to dismiss this idea of grace. Or we misinterpret 2 Nephi 25:23. In his book " Letters to a Young Mormon. Adam Miller states in his chapter on Sin:. He goes further in hist latest book. Adam Miller goes on to "paraphrase" the entire boo...
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Scott in Tempe: September 2013
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General musings about mostly national politics, religion, and how I try to manage my day to day life. Sunday, September 1, 2013. How I'm Learning to Read Difficult, Technical Books. I'm not sure my advise will be generally applicable and the older I get the more I worry that I'm learning these lessons far too late. But you know, I still (hopefully) have decades of productive work ahead of me, so I'm still young enough to learn new things I suppose. And Song of Solomon. It's relevant here because as I sta...
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Scott in Tempe: October 2014
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General musings about mostly national politics, religion, and how I try to manage my day to day life. Monday, October 27, 2014. A few thoughts on the LD26 debate. I wish I had more time this election season to carefully watch and blog about each debate in detail. As it stands, I'm having to watch debates sporadically usually while doing something else pieces at a time. And I'm only going to be able to post quick thoughts about them here. A few quick points:. In the debate, of the Republicans, James Roy.
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Scott in Tempe: September 2014
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General musings about mostly national politics, religion, and how I try to manage my day to day life. Saturday, September 20, 2014. Getting Along With Others. I just finished reading remarkable. Book co-written by a remarkable LDS couple. This provides a unique opportunity to meet people you might not otherwise meet and it forces global regions to self-bootstrap and to learn how to take care of themselves. A couple of quotes from the book illustrate the power of this approach:. Although not all family re...
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Scott in Tempe: Choose to Have Faith in Miracles
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General musings about mostly national politics, religion, and how I try to manage my day to day life. Wednesday, December 24, 2014. Choose to Have Faith in Miracles. From the Old Testament, Jonas was swallowed whole and then sat for three days in the belly of a whale as punishment for failing to preach to Nineveh. When he finally consented he was spit out onto the shore so he could convince the cities inhabitants to repent. So, why not a belief in Santa Claus as well? That would show an ancient American ...
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Scott in Tempe: Religion and Reason
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General musings about mostly national politics, religion, and how I try to manage my day to day life. Sunday, July 10, 2011. Dave Dickerson's House of Cards already. In a very critical way. But there's a reason I bought and read this book. The reason is because I heard Dickerson on "This American Life" read from his book the following passage I found beautiful and profound. And I lunged. 'Dad-why to go Spain? David', said Dad sharply, and when I stopped, he sighed. David, I'm really proud of you. I'm...
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Scott in Tempe: July 2015
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General musings about mostly national politics, religion, and how I try to manage my day to day life. Friday, July 17, 2015. I'm moving to wordpress here: https:/ scottintempe.wordpress.com/ a. T least for now. :-). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). My name is Scott Turley. I live in Tempe, Arizona. I'm a Mormon. There was an error in this gadget. Random Musings - Tempe Politics. Life is Good by Hoopswim. My portland sister's art. My ny sister's blog.
