Jeffrey Thayne 4. The Relationship between Sin and Suffering In an earlier post, I presented the traditional formulation of the
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Knowing without Doing
In a previous article (The Benefits of Sin?), I explained that people sometimes suggest they are better off for having
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Jeffrey Thayne 3. Pain that Results from Non-moral Causes Much of human suffering simply cannot be attributed to moral agency;
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"I Am the Way … Unless You Find a Better One"
Occasionally I have heard comments from people that reflect a misunderstanding of the Savior’s teachings about repentance and forgiveness. In
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Jeffrey Thayne 2. Pain that Results from Sin In the first post of this series, I discussed how the existence
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The Benefits of Sin?
The Savior spoke parables in order to teach eternal truths. The Bible Dictionary points out that “the application of a
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Jeffrey Thayne Truman Madsen, a Latter-day Saint and a philosopher, said that for some “the most staggering objection to belief
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Jeffrey Thayne Hammer and screw. A tool is much more effective when you know how to use it right, including
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Jeffrey Thayne Aristotle believed that there were abstract truths, or natural laws, in response to which men formed positive laws.
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Jeffrey Thayne In my previous post, I explained how experimentation is essentially a kind of logical argument. Based upon this
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