Comments on: OK, this was interesting http://adventures-in-mormonism.com/2008/05/30/ok-this-was-interesting/ Correcting the incorrigible Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:24:56 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Best of the Week: Academic LDS : Mormon Metaphysics http://adventures-in-mormonism.com/2008/05/30/ok-this-was-interesting/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Best of the Week: Academic LDS : Mormon Metaphysics Fri, 30 May 2008 21:12:35 +0000 http://adventures-in-mormonism.com/?p=145#comment-157 [...] Uncontacted Amazon tribe and the Book of Mormon. No not really any real connection. More about the exegesis of passages like Alma 3:4-6 about the mark on the Lamanites. I’ve long, long thought that such descriptions should not be interpreted racially but as a self-painting. The big worth is the picture though. Show it when teaching the Book of Mormon next (even if it probably took place a long ways to the north) [...] [...] Uncontacted Amazon tribe and the Book of Mormon. No not really any real connection. More about the exegesis of passages like Alma 3:4-6 about the mark on the Lamanites. I’ve long, long thought that such descriptions should not be interpreted racially but as a self-painting. The big worth is the picture though. Show it when teaching the Book of Mormon next (even if it probably took place a long ways to the north) [...]

]]> By: Bryce Haymond http://adventures-in-mormonism.com/2008/05/30/ok-this-was-interesting/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Bryce Haymond Fri, 30 May 2008 16:42:26 +0000 http://adventures-in-mormonism.com/?p=145#comment-156 A question we might ask our Christian friends is if these people will ever have the opportunity to hear and accept the gospel of Jesus Christ, or if they will be damned for eternity for never having that opportunity in mortality. Even today there are people who know nothing of Jesus or his gospel. The restored gospel has provided a way for even these to accept what Jesus Christ has offered us. These will be taught in the spirit world, and the ordinances will be performed vicariously. A question we might ask our Christian friends is if these people will ever have the opportunity to hear and accept the gospel of Jesus Christ, or if they will be damned for eternity for never having that opportunity in mortality. Even today there are people who know nothing of Jesus or his gospel.

The restored gospel has provided a way for even these to accept what Jesus Christ has offered us. These will be taught in the spirit world, and the ordinances will be performed vicariously.

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