The faith of God, part ten: The relationship of faith to agency (power)

Continued from part nine. Faith is not power In part two, I erroneously wrote “faith is power” in one of the sub-headings. After catching the error, I decided to leave it up as a teaching point. Many people equate faith with power, just as they equate faith with hope. Part two explained that faith is [...]

Extended fasting: a cure for all spiritual AND PHYSICAL ailments

Fasting is a faith amplifier or multiplier. By voluntarily reducing our bodies’ reliance upon food, we increase its reliance upon Spirit. We can then increase our portion of the Spirit by coupling it with prayer and righteous living. This can lead to a greater probability of receiving whatever spiritual blessing we are seeking. Spiritual blessings [...]

Breaking News: Joseph Smith’s Daguerrotype is scanned and uploaded

This is to let all visitors to this blog know that I have come across one of the (supposedly lost) photocopies I made of a possible/probable daguerrotype of Joseph Smith that I discovered around seven years ago. Prior to today, the only LDS who had seen this daguerrotype were myself and the three people I [...]

The role of agency in political systems

The heavenly principle of agency is fundamental to both the plan of salvation and the gospel of Jesus Christ Agency is the ability to act for oneself1, and not to be acted upon2. All created things are given agency3, but this article addresses only the agency of man. The Lord taught that agency was given [...]

Thanks to Thailer

Thanks goes out to Thailer for his request that I prepare and submit an article on free agency for publication in The Mormon Worker. I finished the article today, but it consists of 6056 words, so it may get rejected for publication due to its length. At any rate, I will publish it here on [...]

The faith of God, part nine: The ingredients of faith

Continued from part eight. The last five articles of this series have been analyzing the three ingredients of faith, which are the word of God, belief on that word and the Holy Ghost, as well as the special role of Jesus Christ and his atonement and prayer and fasting for the generation of faith. Once [...]