It is healthy to get your blood pressure up a bit. I played a fun hide-and-go seek like game with Corryn over the weekend. I gave her a good freight at times, but we had a good laugh about it all.
I also got my blood pressure up as did Jeremy when I pointed out a supposed flaw in the book Eve and the Choice Made Eden by Beverly Campbell.
Jeremy said it was researched very thoroughly and defended that is was just a mater of semantics. Maybe, but I just wanted more information.
Chapter 9, I believe, stated that Adam and Eve where immortal. How could they be immortal? Why not skip straight over the whole mortality stuff? For the benefit of mankind?
2 Nephi 2:25 Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.
I was depressed that Russell M. Nelson's talk on the Atonement in 1996 (in a footnote) was the only reference to being amortal.
I suppose it is just semantics. Like the Free Agency versus Moral Agency (it isn't necessarily free) ordeal or the fact that God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost are one in purpose although the Book of Mormon doesn't just come out and say that either:
3 Nephi 11:27 And after this manner shall ye baptize in my name; for behold, verily I say unto you, that the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost are one; and I am in the Father, and the Father in me, and the Father and I are one.
Posted by Michael at August 18, 2003 07:58 PMI agree that the whole trinity thing can be confusing. Its confused people for thousands of years now.
The free agency vs. moral agency argument is stupid. When someone refers to free agency they are refering to the fact that men are free to do whatever they will...not that agency is something that could or couldn't have a price put on it. To object to the phrase "free agency" because agency "has a price" is like objecting to the sentence "America is a free country" because you couldn't obtain all of America without paying a price. Thats retarded. (I'm sure you'll dig up some GA that I've now contradicted...oh well.)
Posted by: Jeremy at August 20, 2003 10:06 AMHmm...I just realized that that last comment is kind of rude. Sorry about that. I wasn't attacking your use of the free=free argument...just when other people do it. It is sometimes hard to convey a "this is all in fun" attitude to a post in writing. I hate putting those stupid :-) faces all over.
Posted by: Jeremy at August 21, 2003 09:49 AM