Love is not incompatible with moral discernment, and God shows His love by correcting us and guiding us.
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Is our highest calling to be true to ourselves, or to be true to God?
Expressive individualism assumes that personal authenticity is our highest priority.
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SPOILER ALERT: This analysis includes mild Episode 1 and early season spoilers. THE GOOD PLACE is a fun take on
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WONDER WOMAN gives us heroes, heroines, and and thought-provoking themes the rival most other films in the superhero genre. I
Continue readingAppendix C: Questions and answers
In this chapter, we answer questions that readers may have about the differences between idea-truth and person-truth. Isn’t God subject
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The central distinction of this book is between the idea view of truth and the person view of truth. This
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Further readings about Truth as a Person Brent D. Slife, “C.S. Lewis: Drawn by the Truth Made Flesh,” in Andrew
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The idea view of truth serves as the foundation for most modern scientific and scholarly discourse. Latter-day Saints are invested
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How we think about truth (and how we think about sin) influences how we think about Christ’s sacrifice for us.
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