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RE: What is going on over at BYU?

BYU still maintains a predominantly conservative leanin...

By ldsflow , 3 months ago
RE: Dress while in church!

@barnlife212 Buy them a new outfit but then tell them t...

By smidgebeesmidgebee , 3 months ago
RE: Testimony, the church changed my life.

Thanks for sharing.

By smidgebeesmidgebee , 3 months ago
What is going on over at BYU?

So, this interesting thing came up at a recent dinner. ...

By smidgebeesmidgebee , 3 months ago
RE: Testimony, the church changed my life.

Thank you for sharing your story Maria.

By iamfrei , 4 months ago

“Life is assumed to be about the fundamental, clear-cut choice between good and evil. Mormonism sees no such simple dichotomy in the primeval options. Yes, obedience and safety and security in God’s presence are presented as one of the choices, But Mormonism is more sympathetic to Eve’s perception of the alternative; the beauty of the fruit, its goodness as food, its desirability ‘to make one wise.’

Not coincidentally, ancient philosophers like Plato considered the triad of ideas – Beauty, Goodness, Truth – to be the highest manifestation of divine virtue. In the Mormon narrative, therefore, the circumstances that define the reality of the human predicament are not a blatant choice between Good and Evil but a wrenching decision to be made between competing sets of Good.

The philosopher Hegel believed that this scenario, replicated in myriad artistic narratives, expressed the inescapably tragic nature of the universe. There are very few simple choices. No blueprint gives us easy answers. Life’s most wrenching choices are not between right and wrong but between competing demands on our time, our resources, our love and loyalty.”

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