Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
By LDS Scripture Teachings I continue to have questions from individuals asking essentially “Why evil?” This “problem of evil”, addressed in previous posts, may be helpful. I like the teaching of Spencer W. Kimball on this subject and am including his talk entitled “Tragedy or Destiny” here for future use. When we face the apparent tragedies of sorrow, suffering, […] Read More Read more here:: Tragedy or Destiny?
Tell a child right before going into class to stand up after the prayer and hand them out to each person without being prompted to. Then, ask the students why this person stood up and performed the action of handing out the slips of paper. Explain that he was asked to do it before class and that this is a lot like foreordination. Once in the class, he didn’t have…
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Many students ask the question if God knows how I’ll act in a given situation (temptation or other), isn’t He really responsible for the way I acted in that situation? Does foreordination mean I have no choice in the way I’ll act? Am I predestined to failure? One of my professors at BYU (seems to me it was Joseph McConkie) responded to the question this way: After a discussion on…
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