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America the Phoenix from the Ashes
We should not be contending with anger, one with another, over national politics. If we cannot come together as Americans, God cannot bless our country as He would if we did--in righteousness.
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Woza Moya Ongcwele Chapter Eight
Elder Nkosi has foreboding feelings regarding his companion's family after meeting with the mission president and his wife following the crash. Are these revelatory in nature or does the weight of losing his sister trouble him?
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Inspired Ministering in the Name of Jesus Christ
Ministering is learning of the needs of others, and attending to the needs of others, and learning and attending to our individual temporal and spiritual needs.
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Juneteenth Is for All Americans
All people benefit from Juneteenth, not just descendants of the former slaves.
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Zeniff the Colonial Zealot in Ancient America
Zeniff, a Nephite soldier, disobeyed orders from his commander to destroy ... A small army of spies? operatives? colonists? deployed from Zarahemla....
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Discipleship of Jesus Christ: Temple of My Body
God expects a dedicated building where His Holy Spirit may dwell and purify His people. That building can also be our bodies He expects to purify and dwell in as vessels of His love.
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Biden Speech: Sowing Seeds of Sedition And Saying It!
Open letter to President Biden from a person mischaracterized in his speech Sep 1, 2022. He managed to insult half of the United States of America while feigning a message of unity. The only unity that existed in that speech was the unity in the words that personally attacked me.
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Guns Are Not the Issue
People are the issue. People use guns to kill people, and they should be allowed to do so. Why? Because we don't all share the same value for life and liberty. If you break into my house, threatening my family, I want to be able to shoot you.
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Jordan Peele's NOPE (2022) Movie Review
This movie really stretches the imagination, because there is hardly anything in the movie besides things to imagine.
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Bill Holland's the Mailbag, the Book!
Coming soon, to a bookstore near you ... a media platform? Bill Holland will soon have another series of books he didn't even know he wrote! Maybe he did.... Read and spread the word about it!
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Black History Month: The Pursuit of Liberty
Society's learned since the slavery of the United States to the rights of women to determine if their individual rights supersede the rights of the unborn to exist that Black History Month is a time to reflect on the rights of all humans by remembering how some of us had none.
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So It Was With Me... Life
Joseph Smith, Paul, Moses, Lehi, and Rodric (me) have something in common of great significance. It is of such great significance that it needs to be told, but of such common application that everyone should experience, and does experience it to a degree. It is called meeting with God.
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Christological View of Critical Race Theory
Most readers may be intrigued by studying Critical Race Theory from a Christological point of view, relating to the teachings, diety, and life of Jesus Christ.
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Chains Jesus Breaks
Life has a way of binding us down into fixed positions, chains of past choices with accompanying guilt. Jesus breaks those chains.
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Division of All Fears?
Fears have a source, but who knows what that is? This article is about stories of fear that may not necessarily be based on being afraid. Happy Holloween. This is in response to Brenda Arledge's Week 32 Word Prompt!
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Confessions & Secrets
Poetry and banter inspired by the word "Secrets" issued as a word-prompt challenge for week 31 by Brenda Arledge.
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Who Stoneth the Prophets
Even modern prophets have to go through the persecution of their words no matter how carefully written to offend the least, or spoken to invite the humble. God's truth cuts like s two edge sword. What can we expect?
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Critical Race Theory: Multi-Hemispheric Nature
Critical Race Theory does not fit neatly, ready to package into a box and dispense to the world, as American culture prefers things. Those who prefer conserving the current system of government lean to the right. Those who prefer replacing this system of government lean left.
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Woza Moya Ongcwele Chapter Seven
Elders Nkosi and Smarts notice a tear forming in their plane’s right wing! The plane smacks the ground.
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Critical Race Theory: Rodric Johnson's Understanding
Critical Race Theory has led me to the following understanding I wish to share with my peers and the world. I, however, must admit that those who suggest the following to me represent the strictest of the CRT theorist. So, hold on to your offense and know that not all CRT theorists concede to the fo
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Critical Race Theory
If you're offended easily. Skip past this. Not that I make a habit of offending people intentionally, but most readers will not enjoy what I am about to present after studying Critical Race Theory. This is the first in a number of articles to come!
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Woza Moya Ongcwele Chapter Six
Peace, a calming peace fills him with tranquility and love, more than he could have imagined. At one time, he thought these blessings amounted to nothing but hysteria ...
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Adulation: A Poem of Discovery
This poem is a tribute to the song of my heart as I studied the scriptures--derived from a journal entry. Jesus Christ is the root of my motivation to share these feelings. Poetry sings in words the feelings of the heart.
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God Regrets Things? Doesn't Perfect Mean no Regrets?
If God is what religionists and the Bible claim Him to be, why do all those bad things happen and still happen?
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Woza Moya Ongcwele Chapter Five
Dim light from the glare of a paraffin lamp casts shadowy figures dancing in the glow around the room as soft thumps of rainfall filter in through the slightly raised window ...
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Like the Prophets
“Yeah, but he was a prophet. Does God expect me to be as faithful as Peter, Moses, or even Jesus?”
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Woza Moya Ongcwele Chapter Four
Hiram discovers lost pieces of his past while searching for answers empacting his future.
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Memories Are All That's Left Of Him
This memorial narrative poem describes the affection of a boy, then a man, towards his father. Love born after a teen meets his dad, finally! And in response to the Word-Prompt "Memories" offered by Brenda Arledge are three poems
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Juneteenth National Holiday
"The Senate unanimously passed a resolution on Tuesday," June 15, 2021, "establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a US holiday."
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Woza Moya Ongcwele Chapter Three
Is it the Jane Doe in the hospital room that Hiram should focus on or the missionary papers in his phone. One seems to be calling, while the other seems ...
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Celebrated!
Intrinsicly, I live between celebrations and pats on my back, similar to the way we give treats to our kids and pets. This poem reflects that!
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Accepting God Is Real
I turn off my brain when people start sharing what they believe; therefore, 100 million people out there could possibly do the same. For the other seven billion-plus, I hope to reach... God is real...
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Having A Dad Again
How is it to meet your dad for the first time? Many of us never get to "meet" our dads. They just happen to be around when we notice they exist. Some of us get to meet them for the first time emotionally. Some of us get to meet them for the first time, period.
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Seven Years of Inspiration!
Celebrate the seventh year of the Mailbag! Bill Holland established a community of learning when he started the Writers Mailbag. This is an anniversary article about that.
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Uh, What's That?
"There is a beast in the middle of the road! What is that thing?"
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Father Means...
Father is not limited to being the sire of offspring. It is more than that. It is moments that seem... well, dad moments!
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Let Them In
A poem about refugees.
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God Less
Can there truly exist a world without God? Can humanity truly live without some religion or standard to worship?
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Sunshine In My Soul Today!
Feelings pulse through my soul as I think about the many types of sunshine that fill my life with joy. Some of them make perfect sense, while others shine only from emotional and spiritual realms.
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Chosen Ones
Any type of supremacy is misguided at best. We each have a season where God will call upon us to act in a Chosen responsibility, that if misunderstood some of us will take that season of responsibility as a divine sanction of some type of supremacy.
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Klondike: The Lost Expedition on Facebook, Fun, Addictive, Expensive!
Facebook games are fun. That's just the truth. That's why we play them, but at what cost? Good entertainment is good entertainment. Know what you're getting into for the fun. In the moment it is worth it! 20/20 hindsight says, "NO!"
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Papier-Mâché Memory
Sometimes the simple tasks bring to mind things we love to hate to love. Life is a collection of prompts for other parts of Life.
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Farewell to A Republican Icon: Rush Limbaugh
Tribute and farewell to the friend I never had a chance to make. Rush Limbaugh is gone to the other side.
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Black History Month: A Minority Is a Minority Is a Minority Is a Minority...
Black History Month is the celebration of all groups of people who know the struggle of overcoming the restrictions of society--not a competition with them!
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Black History Month: Pursuit of Liberty
Black History Month is a celebration of the high costs that societies pay to nurture human liberty.
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Black History Month: A Culture of Comedy
This season of the celebration of Black History is an opportunity for the world to explore things in our cultures and in our pasts that may cause hope or may have caused harm to those with whom we associate.
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Black History Month: Perspective 2021
The American Black History Month of 2021 celebrates something dear to all races: The right to exist! This article seeks to reach into the hearts and inspire the minds of ALL people to recognize the human will to lift, despite the pulsing forces of agency’s enemies to restrain. Cash APP: $rodricAjo
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Devil Burden of Details
Why does it happen that one person is offended because another person is offended because the first person mistakenly accused him of something wrong that spawned a negative reaction?
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So It Was With Me... Learning Of Nephi
Nephi’s family fell apart after his father Lehi passed away. Nephi’s brothers tried to kill him because they did not like the fact that in his old age, their father favored Nephi because Nephi believed in their father’s teachings about God.
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Era of Biden: Win or Loss for America?
Half of the US thinks this was a win and the other half thinks it is a loss. Which half is right? We have a president, our freedoms, the next elections, and such. Who is the loser, though?
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So It Was With Me... Defining Features
The history of the world changes one person at a time multiplied by every one person until changes happen in families, communities, regions, nations, and, of course, the world. Joseph Smith's experience changed the world. I am one in the world whom it changed.
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Into the Heart of the Matter
The question that needs an answer is: Can Black Christians support the sentiment that Black lives matter even though there is a group that supports it called Black Lives Matter--a group considered by many anti-God and anti-Christian?
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And so It Was With Me... Revelation
We are no different than the ancient peoples of the world described in the Holy Scriptures. We need salvation, hope, and revelation from God just as vitally as did they. As it was with them, so it is with us to receive and live the word of God and it comes to us in all of its forms.
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So It Was With Me...
Joseph Smith, Paul, Moses, Lehi, and Rodric (me) have something in common of great significance. It is of such great significance that it needs to be told, but of such common application that everyone should experience, and does experience it to a degree. It is called meeting with God.
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Dear President Trump
Just because I felt a certain way does not mean it is okay to express it to the world. That is not keeping with what I know to be true about following Jesus Christ.
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Mr. President Donald Trump, What Are You Doing?
This is my farewell to President Trump. I come early and to my utter riddance.
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Jesus and His Teachings are Catholic!
It is true! Jesus is the purest form of catholicism in that His teachings and atonement are inclusive and relevant to all of humanity no matter the belief, station, or situation of any individual.
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Learning I Am More, Much More!
Have you ever said of yourself, "I am just a [insert word]" to describe yourself? Whether it is good or bad, we all put limits on who we are and how we define ourselves. There is more to us.
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A Challenge! Courtesy of Author Karen Hellier
With the beginning of the new year of 2021, what writer would dismiss a new challenge without good cause? Writing prompts are the source of great creativity even if the prompt is another author's challenge to write. Read some!
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I Bet You Read This!
The power of suggestion is fascinating. The title alone makes for interesting speculation and a magnetic draw. You want to click on the link just to find out what curiosity there is that you would want to read. Don't you? This type of advert is compelling. Let's begin.
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Church History: The Puzzle of Familiarity
If the God of creation had to endure the contempt of His creations, why not a prophet who testified on His behalf in modern times? Following is a brief exploration of the history of Joseph Smith, Junior's ministry regarding the publication of modern scripture.
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Life Distractions at Loathing Time
Christmas is supposed to be about something more than gifts and parties. This year, it is just an excuse to get free stuff and volunteer labor. Hecking Christmas!
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Constitution Above Political Party
Outside of religion, freedom is the holy cry of US citizens. Freedom to do as we please without infringing on the rights of others and think as we will. The only thing that helps us to understand the "god" of Freedom is the holy text of the Constitution.
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#ShareTheGift and #LightTheWorld
Hashtags can be the beginning of hope for many people during this time in human history when the world is all experience similar challenges. Christmas is a time of sharing, right? Let us share love and service. Let us be true to CHRISTmas this December 2020.
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#GiveThanks
The Season of Gratitude is not limited to a particular time of year or to a particular set of beliefs. Thankfulness is a state of gratitude where appreciation is shown for all the good life and all the good that comes from the challenges of life.
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Who am I as I Try to Be Me?
In a world where people seek to discover who they are, it may surprise us at how close to the truth we all are in that regard. It doesn't have to be a mystery.
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Familiar Times of Peace
Remember what we have experienced together and share what we love the most about it. That is Thanksgiving. It is familiar. It is custom. It is my culture on Thanksgiving. It is a sacred act and cherished expectation that will not happen this year.
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Were There Not Ten?
God loves a grateful heart. Gratitude turns the hearts of everyday people to give in ways they otherwise would not. If God is anything like the average do-gooder, would not the things He gives be a least just as extraordinary as the ordinary person who loves gratitude?
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Extemporaneous
Sometimes, the only thing to do is write what is on the mind and see what flows out. Hopefully, it isn't embarrassing enough to edit when you're finished.
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Thanksgiving Challenge 2020 Thursday: Feasts of Giving
Sometimes the feast that we receive is not one of food. When we appreciate the small things in life, the feasts can be truly heavenly and spiritual.
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Thanksgiving Challenge 2020 Wednesday: Rock-A-Bye
All the apple pie that is America did not stop the shift to make America great again. That greatness is not about political power, but the power to uphold the laws of the land without prejudice. Thanksgiving is about being thankful for what we are given: Freedom and the power to vote!
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Thanksgiving Challenge 2020 Tuesday: I'm Goin' Eat Me Some Pie!
It was my first Thanksgiving in Arizona, away from my mother and home state of Georgia. Seems like lately, we skip Thanksgiving and slide right into Christmas. Just like a prayer though, we should give thanks before we get the things that we've been asking
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Words of the Damned
Being damned is not necessarily going to hell or suffering. Being damned is being blocked or prohibited from progressing. What do people who are damned say?. Read and see. Many times we are the thing, our way of thinking that damns.
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Voting for the President of the United States
The Electoral College may be the group that votes for president in the United States, but each citizens' choice says a lot about how the country will support the leadership of the President. Who we chose matters. Our vote matters.
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Death of My Muse
Can a muse die? If so, does that mean that the writer is dead also? Is there nothing more?
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The Power of Positive Regard
The collective power of humanity to change lives with just our minds and our mouths is real. When we include faith, it is a miracle. Psychology teaches that we can help one another with unconditional positive regard. It is true on so many levels.
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When We Were Slaves: Natives of the Americas
Columbus opened up to the Europeans a new era of human trafficking that created multiple cultures throughout the Americas. Slavery became a staple to American success.
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I Can't Breathe!
I am vividly aware that I look like the men whose necks constricted by public servants held enough air to frame dying utterances of "I can't breathe!"
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Confederacy Stands for White Supremacy
The South left the Union because it could not own slaves. It left the union because it wanted White men to have the privilege of standing supreme at the helm of society legally and culturally. What better definition of White supremacy is there than the Confederacy.
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Misery Loves Company but Hope Loves it More!
COVID-19 has covered the world in misery as millions, billions wait for word of a cure. A vaccine is in need for our spirits as well. Misery is much more of a disease in life than any virus can be because it kills the spirit and the body.
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Sign Language: Unuttered and Unwritten
Signing is a means to communicate existing languages without speech or text.
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Harriet Tubman Movie Review
Harriet, a review that tells about how a movie can touch the hearts of viewers with talented actors and actresses making you forget it's a movie!
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Great Are the Words of Isaiah
Isaiah is the most quoted of all the prophets in the scriptures because his words are meant for all of humanity, let alone the House of Israel.
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Jacob: Son of Lehi & Disciple of Christ
Jacob is important ... another witness God's plan to send Jesus as Savior not because Israel failed as a nation; but as a continuation of the original plan from beginning ... Israel as a spiritual vehicle to ensure His Plan of Salvation for humanity went forward.
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Change is Not Welcomed
Remembering the days long gone and walking down memory lane are supposed to be pleasant things. Some times living through the change is not so easy.
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Author of Clarity, Dispeller of Ambiguity
This article discusses the permissiveness of society in ways, perceptually innocent ways that work to undermine the happiness of each person when society defines everything as happiness except reason.
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Dearly Departed Ones
What are those who die doing if there is life after death? They are doing something because God reveals that there is eternal life with Him or in Hell. What are they up to?
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Kanye West Comes to Christ!
Music's powerful effect on the heart can bring us to God. Kanye West using talents shows faith. His faith sounds good. Jesus Is King. Yeezy For Jesus!
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Dark Reflection
What happens around us when we are deep in thought, not noticing even our own reflection? come and read.
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Christopher Columbus in Review - Repeating History
October 14 is the day recognizing Columbus for his heroic voyages that introduced traffic to the Americas from Europe. Once a celebrated pioneer, Columbus, in the last few decades is depicted as a greedy conquerer, an imperialistic plague.
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Is God a Failure? Adam and Eve & Cain and Abel
A colleague suggested God failed His people, all of them--every creation. I took the opinion that what colleague saw as a failure was a misinterpretation on his part. Read and see if the fantastic explanations herein are more believable than God being a Failure for Adam, Eve, Cain, and Able.
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Christopher Columbus in Review
Columbus himself wrote that he was driven by the hand of God to go west to eventually open the hidden potential in the lands he called the Indies. Was he a harbinger of death or a bringer of hope? Why can't he be both?
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Disagree Without Being Disagreeable
We look for ways to rationalize beliefs to settle our minds in case a point we heard causes dissonance, a dissonance we'd rather live with than change from well-ingrained beliefs.
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Comment Inspired Poem: God Has Failed!
One man's as he poetic description of his belief in God. Each point stood alone as emblazoned accusations against the omnipotence of God now framed into a poem.
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Is God a Failure? Perfect Society of Angels
Modern society is full of questions, reasonable ones that deserve answers--from God! Let's discuss each accusation and attempt to fathom an understanding if God is a failure with angels.
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Agnostic and Christian Discuss If God Is a Mythical Whimsy
“What makes your interpretation more correct than mine?” No matter how off-based a claim someone makes, emotion-based opinions seem to matter as much as reasoned opinions--on social media. Equality in the ability to have an opinion exists no matter how reasoned the opinion is.
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Price for Being Fat
As humans, should we have compassion for people and offer a willingness to include them? Has no one ever allowed themselves to endure a moment or two of discomfort to spare the comfort of another person? Is that not civil?
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Abecedarian Poetry
Outward expression of inward fascination structured in a medium or a free-flowing potpourri of words. This is about Abecedarian poems.
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Ruminations on Death
As painful as mortal life can be, it's the greatest opportunity for any man or woman to become perfected and holy, because in it we can change.
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Adam & Eve Degenerative Effects of the Fall: Imperfections of Life
Imperfections in all arrays and severity afflict the human race because of choices made in Eden Garden and their effect on the development of countless lives sent to the blue globe Earth.
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God in Modern Life: The Expert
Experts give, if nothing more than an illusion of it, the idea of a guarantee, a deflection of worry. Trust is what experts represent to the world, professionalism.
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Watered Down Black People
Watered Down Black refers to the level of melanin a person of African heritage has in his or her skin in conjunction to American identity and cultural experience.
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Daily Joggles
A story at a church meeting about how a daily jog can be a microcosm for the life of a Saint.
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Acts of the Apostles - The Law of Consecration
Christ did not do away with tithing. He fulfilled the law of tithing, requiring not only a tenth of increase but the giving of EVERYTHING to the church and having the Apostles redistribute it back to each member of the Church of Christ as need demanded.
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Could You Repeat That Please? - Offense or Not
For the Black man who is called the n-word or the white man who is called racist, the feelings are not equal in nature, but the hurt of receiving either epitaph can cause offense that lasts a lifetime. Such is the case in the following story mentioned in the Bible.
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Could You Repeat That Please? - Value of Human Life
The worth of a man's soul is valued at more than 2000 pigs at least and the life of the only begotten Son of God at most.
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Could You Repeat That Please? - Culture or Faith
With a certain moral brush have I painted the Savior into a box of perfection of my own making based in the cultural prejudices and rules of my time. How could Jesus, the most peaceful and loving, be so selfish and callous?
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Adam & Eve's First Children Episode Fourteen
Another option is Cain and Abel were two among many siblings in existence at the time. Let's reason together.
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Surviving Against the Odds
Black History is also about the average homes and families of Black men or women who work as cogs in the machinery of society helping it turn and operate.
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Ouroboros That Is American Free Speech
If the United States of America does not examine why some Americans feel it acceptable to allow ... feelings about a type of speech to ... invalidate divinely granted and Constitutionally ... freedom of speech, citizens will devour that right until it no longer is free speech ...
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To Really Love a Wife - Her Interests and Happiness
Focusing on bringing our wives happiness doesn't mean we subvert our joy as husbands but include them in the entire process as they will for us.
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Dear Black Christians,
Whether real or imagined, even today we may feel like Whites curse us and talk about us in derision. They hate us for being different and for reminding them of the evil they perpetuated toward our ancestors. They despitefully used us and abused us and persecuted us for years!
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Waiting on a Bus While White - Parental Offense
A group of teenagers waited for the bus ride away from their activity when a social storm coalesced erupting into political diatribe and rhetoric.
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When We Were Slaves: From Captivity to Freedom
Thousands of years ago, and even two seconds ago, slavery in some form has existed within humanity. Slavery is not unique to any race or culture any more than is a loaf of bread. It, however, has a direct link to at least 14% of Americans.
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Agree With Thine Adversary While Thou Art in the Way
Every relationship wants to be united as a single organization of complementary ideas and function--not equal partners but complementary partners with equal worth.
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Ode to the Reader
People who read the words writers put forth elicit confidence that connections with strangers are made. Here is an ode to the reader.
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Flowers
So much can happen in a year. The way things begin are not necessarily the way things will end. This is a tribute to 2018 and a Welcome to 2019
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White Privilege is Not Racism
During this article points about the existence of White privilege as a function of cultural and racial preference (described errantly in Pop culture as racism) while not being racist itself receive attention for consideration.
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Flesh-Colored Band-Aids
This article is about how both Shapiro and I, a proponent of the existence of White privilege (sort of), are correct all by the existence of the flesh-colored band-aid.
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Adam & Eve: Similitude of Jehovah Episode Thirteen
Focus here ... pattern of family discord from Heaven continued into mortality when Adam and Eve's family began to grow.
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Adam & Eve Hope in Covenant Child Episode Fifteen
First parents had other children ... There is more truth out there to factor into the equation. Here is perspective on succession of the priesthood authority God entrusted with Adam and his children.
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Evidence of Tenant Five (5) of John Hansen's Creed for the Third Millennium
This article is in support of things expressed of forgiveness the elixir and the miracle.
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Adam & Eve Degenerative Effects of The Fall: Corruptable Body
Effects of The Fall apply to all of humanity. Since Adam and Eve fell from immortality, all corruption grows more corrupt, and the elements cease to obey their original command more quickly.
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Adam & Eve Psychology of Mortality Episode Twelve
Eve, curious to know how to keep all of the commandments of God, including the forbidden fruit, willingly risked it all to know how to gain the knowledge of God, which she did. She risked and lost her life, gaining it back through Jesus Christ.
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Dear Mr. President, About That Wall...
The wall, though. Like I said it seemed good initially. Now, I am against it. Don't stop reading, Mr. President. I can explain what changed.
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Adam & Eve: Probation Called Life: The Test Episode Eleven
This article explains asserts that no longer are the sins of the first humans condemning their offspring to eternal death. All humans endure the test of life by their merit after the grace of Christ is applied to all of their sins.
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Adam & Eve Probation Called Life Out of Eden's Garden Episode Ten
Experiencing death one of many things Adam and Eve learned in mortality. New temporary life became like leaving home.
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Adam & Eve On Death Row by Accidental Death and Murder Episode Nine
Accidental Death and Murder, are not so easy to accept. These are the conditions created by the first people. Conditions that have a purpose for good, but are unpleasant to experience.
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Adam & Eve On Death Row by Natural Causes and Disease Episode Eight
Humanity has a death sentence that will occur in either old age or somewhere in the continuum between birth and maturity. Some will sit and fear its coming, some will not think of death until it occurs to a close relation, others will welcome it and even try to rush it along. All will experience it.
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Dear Americans, About Refugees...
What should we as a people do when thousands are begging to get into a country that claims to offer refuge for the downtrodden historically when it also fears the threat of terrorism and crime? It is complicated.
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Man's Best Friend Has a Name
So What is man's best friend name? Discussed here is the importance of naming a dog, and how it forms the emotional bond to the dogs we love because dogs have personality.
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Bitter Days, Bitter-Sweet Days, and Sweet Days
Many people have lost loved ones during the holidays, which causes that holiday to be associated with death and misery. There is no faulting the person for doing that. or there should be no fault against the person.
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Confessions of a 40-Something Six: Christmas Edition
Christmas brings back fond memories of love and acceptance, good food, and presents, a special time of year filled with wonder and cheer.
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Adam & Eve Out of the Garden Episode Seven
Adam and Eve hoped in a plan of salvation God prepared before the world was organized. First Couple, true first King and Queen's exodus from heaven on Earth.
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Adam & Eve: Be Fruitful, Industrious
Fruitful defined is to bear fruit, a yield of fruit that is good. This bounteous descriptor and action apply to all aspects of life, starting of course with God's decree to have many offspring. Anxiously engaged in a GOOD cause producing GOOD results are what the Lord desires of His children.
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Adam & Eve: Oversee the Garden and the Earth
This dominion came with a price tag. Adam and Eve had to subdue it, tame it. Work was involved. Getting to know the Garden and how it grew, not conquer, but subdue.
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Adam & Eve Multiply Replenish
Multiply and Replenish the world was one of the commandments God gave: --> Do not eat the forbidden fruit --> Oversee the Garden and the Earth --> Populate the Earth with people
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Cleansing Inner Vessels: God's Power 4
Growing up to become God. Jesus Christ thought about that, and He was God in the flesh. It is possible by His own admission.
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Cleansing Inner Vessels: God's Power 3
Creation is the power of intelligent beings, inherited from God who is the Master Creator. Human beings are the offspring of God with the power of God to create.
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Cleansing Inner Vessels: God's Power 2
God's power over life and death, salvation to the soul and creation itself are beyond human comprehension unless God reveals it and all people benefit from it in every nation.
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Cleansing Inner Vessels - God's Power 1
God's power is in the love that He has for all things who in turn honor Him with obedience to the laws He set for them, we call laws of nature. This article speaks on the power of God and how it relates to cleansing the inner vessel of man.
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Cleansing the Inner Vessel - God is Good
In this article, the goodness of God is a way that we as seekers of goodness can learn how to cleanse our vessels to become pure and clean spiritually. The key to learning about God's goodness is seeking to be good. Because our behavior is what comes out of man.
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Cleansing Inner Vessel God's Atonement
God's atonement is highest form of Love. He laid down His mortal life for all humans, paying price for sin through suffering until death. What better way to show someone love than to lay down life itself?
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Good News Christmas
The new Christmas tree stood in girth and height larger than the one in the burned home. The presents, so numerous that they filled the sitting room of the new house, subdued them. The one thing that did not change was the familiar Spirit...
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Warmth at Christmas
The warmth at Christmas time comes in many forms and from the most unexpected places. In the following true story, the warmth at Christmas was real and palpable from the heart to the skin and vice-versa.
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Prejudice vs. Racism
The true meaning of racism is lost in popular culture. This article explains the differences between racism and prejudice.
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Psychological Benefits of Prayer
God desires people to communicate with Him. In answer to those prayers of faith, He will send the Spirit to testify of the truth of the thing the petitioner desires. How is that a psychological benefit?
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Relevance of God in Modern Life - the Knowledge
God designed the universe to do what it does. The planets stay in their orbits around the star called the sun because it is written in the code. The word or code of God, The Master Scientist, runs through the universe. Humans do what their maker does, create and build.
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Relevance of God the Father in Modern Life
Parents are to children as God the Father is to the human race. With all the confusion in the world over religion, it is easy to dismiss this simple truth of all humans being related. Accept that truth, then the other truths make sense.
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Confessions of a 40-Something (5) - You Fool! Three (3) Examples of Being One!
Foolishness is a part of life and we should learn from it when we can. Because we are fools for life, some fools for life over a few things, while others are fools over everything!
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Getting Personal With Christianity 12 - The Bible Saved My Heart
The Bible may appear full of wonder and fascinating tales, and it is! More than stories, the Bible offers a real and powerful testimony of God and the divinity of Jesus Christ as His son.
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Children of a King - Mighty Change
Change, the pure liquid oasis of light, a respite in the desert of darkened minds. The sons of King Mosiah find the truth after experiencing their "Mecca" experience while going about trying to tear down the faith of their father's nation.
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Fill Inner Vessel
Pharisees and Scribes took offense at disciples of Jesus Christ not holding to rules of spiritual hygiene. Jesus took opportunity to show those leaders what it means to be clean.
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Cleansing Inner Vessel
People left out the inward vessel cleansing, which Christ meant for us to keep ourselves clean and worthy on the outside as well as the inside.
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Voice Behind the Serpent
Is it odd all the drama in this universe is based on a disagreement started among family? As a way to get revenge against his brother and snub his father, Lucifer tempts away the people of the world to rebel as he did in heaven.
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I, Refugee - Acrostic Monorhyme Poem
A reflective poem about being the refugee in the stories of our lives.
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Lawyer's Question: Faith
Amulek and Alma faced a public gathering in Ammonihah where lawyers aimed to use religion to silence them preaching detractors of their lifestyles. Offended enough, the people would support the officers of the law to take these men before a judge.
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Window to My Soul
A window allows observers to see in and out of a structure to get some idea of what might be inside or outside of it. The structure is my heart and mind--my imagination! Open the door to it, and open to entertainment.
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Children of a King
The sons of an ancient king receive went out seeking a purpose apart from their father. What they found changed the course of lives of tens of thousands of people for generations.
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Happy Birthday, Love. October 16 to 18 Forever!
In this article is the celebration of the Love I speak of, Mother. Mother died July 11, 2018, in her sleep. Mother's birthday is October 16 through 18. I will explain.
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Lawyer's Question: Case Against Faith
Ancient American Lawyer Zeezrom questions a preacher, Amulek, about God trying to find an occasion to trap him in his words so that charges can allow Zeezrom to earn wages prosecuting before judges.
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Lawyer's Question
This article highlights an ancient discussion that took place between a lawyer and a preacher about devotion to God and the love of money. How can a Saint know if he or she is truly devoted to God?
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Clean House
An outstanding writer by the name of Ann Carr issued the challenge to try out the new things we have learned in the article she wrote. This is my submission to her challenge. Enjoy.
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Returns from Paying Tithing
This tithing relationship with God is not one-sided in nature. God expects us to show our devotion by giving back a tenth or ten percent of what He gives us annually. In return, He challenges us to test Him.
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Suffer the Little Children to Come to Christ
What does the Savior mean when He said “suffer the children to come unto” Him? What does it mean to "suffer" the Children?
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Come Unto Christ
In my mind, I pictured the Savior standing in the distance. My path was clear before my feet which led to Him. When the singer melodiously provided the invitation to come unto Him, in my heart I went.
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Hypobaric Chamber Therapy
Going deep sea diving is not the most thrilling prospect for people like me. I mean, I have seen the movies like Deep Blue Sea, with one of my favorite actors Samuel L. Jackon, where people journey deep below the ocean water and something horrific...
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That Old Serpent, Devil, Great Imitator
Satan's imitation of God to feed his lustful desire to be worshipped receives attention.
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Why Pay A Tithe?
Tithing relationship with God is not one-sided. God expects us to show devotion by giving a tenth or ten percent annually. He challenges us to test him. He challenges us to let Him prove He is faithful in our support.
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True Faith Legacy: Helaman
Helaman, son of Alma the Younger, son of Alma, founder of the Church of Christ among the Nephites ... carry on the spiritual legacy.
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Black Americans: Chosen People
Only way to destroy America ... internal strife ... irreligious society. About chosen nature of Americans of faith the Black Americans.
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From Slaves to Saints
The Restored Gospel takes the lives of Black people and turns them into Saints. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is about making bad good, and good better. That is a divine heritage of all the children of men.
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Relay of Faith: Helaman
Helaman, son of Alma the Younger, son of Alma would have opportunity to carry on spiritual legacy of his grandfather.
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Rise of Amalickiah Episode Two
Amalickiah, an ancient American leader, equivalent to Hitler in destruction, caused bloody series of wars ... Nephite and Lamanite Civilizations in Book of Mormon.
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Rise of Amalickiah Traitor Episode One
Of all kings of Lamanites Book of Mormon presents Amalickiah as most ruthless and ambitious!
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Solutions and Opinions: Unimpeding Black America
The Black community is stalling in its progress trying to separate from everybody else. It fails to see that being (insert designation here) Americans does not make any citizen exceptional. Solutions and opinions on Black lives that matter.
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I, Refugee - The Hero of My Life Story
I want you to know reader, that I was at the lowest point of discouragement I could be and still call myself a Christian when we started this Utah journey. This is the first installment of being trapped in Utah.
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Adam & Eve - Fruit They Ate Episode Six
Tree's fruit had power to alter chemical makeup of Adam and Eve's physical bodies, change their neurological constitution, and cause poisonous blood to flow through their veins causing decay and degeneration.
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Crime and Society: Black Lives Matter
Crime is celebrated in American media. We make fun of the good guy who follows all the rules and find ways to turn him or her into a bad guy. Look what DC did to the story of Superman.
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Signs of a Cult
Cults start because of the psychological hold the leaders of religion have over their followers. There are signs of cultish behavior. The first sign is making excuses for the abuser to justify the behavior.
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Being a Black American and a Latter-Day Saint: Black Is Skin Deep
All humans belong to God and He wants all of humanity to be with Him. “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life,” John 3:16.
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Family: It's About Time!
It is difficult to support a group that supports the "dismantling" of the nuclear family, however, even with that misunderstanding glaring, I thought (think) the movement is a necessary "evil." To be explicit, BLM is a part of God's plan.
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King Benjamin: Believe in God
King Benjamin wanted to give his subjects a message of power, the same one of belief. He wanted to take them out of spiritual slavery and bondage of ignorance and help them worship Jehovah in purity.
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Hell is Here on Earth
Devil and one-third of the host of heaven, 7 billion+ people, and dead people since Adam, who have not been resurrected, simultaneously live on Earth.
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Heaven Is On Earth
Heaven is on Earth! When spirits of the dead leave their bodies, they don't go floating off to some distant ethereal realm in a parallel universe.
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Fair Pay for Hours Worked
Jesus wanted to impress upon the minds of people that God is a Rewarder of all who follow Him no matter when they begin their journey on the Covenant Path. The promise to them is the same as it was to the first.
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Love Through Christ's Message
It is important to honestly answer those questions about faith in Jesus Christ to know how to approach God for help in changing.
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Christ of Lost and Found
Even after I had found God and converted to Christ, I could not reconcile these long-held feelings of doubt in the very story that set Jesus apart from all men and women born, "Immaculate Conception."
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Christians Formerly Known as Mormons
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been trying to define itself to the world ever since its formation in upstate New York in 1830 with six active members.
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Trinity Veracity
Comments deserve their own article! Provocative and humorous ones have a story to tell. Read!
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Abinadi: Condemnation by Decree
180 years before people would know of Jesus Christ's public ministry, Abinadi testified of Christ as the creator of salvation and the very fulfillment of the Law of Moses. What did he receive for his efforts? Abinadi suffered vilification, censure, and condemnation--like Jesus later suffered.
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Abinadi: Not One of Us
The list of seven things that shows how the lives of Abinadi and Jesus parallel making Abinadi a shadow of what was to come with Christ's life.
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Abinadi: Bearer of Message
Abinadi's life was not his own. He was a walking prediction. His ministry to King Noah and his priest paralleled Christ's ministry so much that this article is one of several focusing on seven things they shared in common in their ministries.
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Abinadi: Shadow of Things to Come
The life of Abinadi was virtually unknown until his public ministry. He appears on the public scene, preaches his message, and suffers his fate with the same determination as would his coming Messiah Jesus Christ.
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Abinadi: Apostate Society
Abinadi, an ancient American prophet in an obscure society testifies through his martyrdom of what happened to Messiah over a century before the birth of Jesus!
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Is Not Mormon's Church
Mormon doesn't have a church. Wanting to have us called by the person whom we worship is not trying to deny who we are. We are finally admitting to the world emphatically who we are. We are Christ's chosen people.
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Acts of Captain Moroni: Rise of Liberty
Challenges faced by a nation, more particularly the commanding officer of the military of this nation, and how he dealt with the political intrigue. If all people were more like him, the power of Satan on Earth would diminish, Captain Moroni!
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Ancient American Governments in Book of Mormon Article One
God covenanted with modern Church of Jesus Christ government inspired into existence makes it almost impossible to turn people against Christ, Article One
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Ancient American Governments in Book of Mormon Article Two
God covenanted with modern Church of Jesus Christ government inspired into existence makes it almost impossible to turn people against Christ, Article Two
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Ancient American Governments in Book of Mormon Article Three
Church of Jesus Christ inspired a government into existence that makes it almost impossible to turn the people against Christ. Article Three