Where is the "last column, about looking at the big picture for God's mercy"????
AnneMay 18, 2014
First of all, Professor Muhlestein, thank you for another excellent article giving insight and more understanding of the Old Testament. It is greatly appreciated.
To Robert: Please read D&C 27: 1-4, which we believe was given to the Church by Christ Himself:
1 Listen to the voice of Jesus Christ, your Lord, your God, and your Redeemer, whose word is quick and powerful.
2 For, behold, I say unto you, that it mattereth not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink when ye partake of the sacrament, if it so be that ye do it with an eye single to my glory
Janet G.May 17, 2014
Water or wine ? When the early saints tried to buy pure wine for the Sacrament, many times they found that it had been polluted or even poisoned by the enemies of the Church, and it was very difficult to obtain enough pure wine for entire congregations every Sunday. Another problem was in using homemade wine came in being driven from place to place - not having the opportunity or time to plant, harvest, and make the wine themselves; nor having the ability to preserve it without it spoiling over a short time. In answer to prayer by Joseph about these dilemmas, the Lord allowed the change to water for the Sacrament.
That is my understanding; If anyone has different knowledge, would you please pass it on?
Robert KentMay 12, 2014
Another Symbol: why lds take water when they once took wine? And, other sacrament changes that are not scriptural. These symbols scream to us but we ignore them. Christ turned water into wine. Lds turned wine into water. By the water we keep the commandments. What do you think these sacrament changes symbolize?
Lenet Hadley ReadMay 12, 2014
This is indeed an important key. The term the scriptures themselves use to describe it is "similitudes" (Hosea 12;10). Nephi correctly taught that the chief meaning of all similitudes is the Christ (2 Nephi 11:4), which was also taught by the Savior himself (Moses 6:63). For example, the crossing of Joshua
[whose Greek name is Jesus] over the Jordan was a similitude of Christ taking us over the vast sea of death to inherit the true Promised Land --- Eternal Life. We are safer if we look for those things which witness of the Christ, for they are vast!
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gailMay 23, 2014
Where is the "last column, about looking at the big picture for God's mercy"????
AnneMay 18, 2014
First of all, Professor Muhlestein, thank you for another excellent article giving insight and more understanding of the Old Testament. It is greatly appreciated. To Robert: Please read D&C 27: 1-4, which we believe was given to the Church by Christ Himself: 1 Listen to the voice of Jesus Christ, your Lord, your God, and your Redeemer, whose word is quick and powerful. 2 For, behold, I say unto you, that it mattereth not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink when ye partake of the sacrament, if it so be that ye do it with an eye single to my glory
Janet G.May 17, 2014
Water or wine ? When the early saints tried to buy pure wine for the Sacrament, many times they found that it had been polluted or even poisoned by the enemies of the Church, and it was very difficult to obtain enough pure wine for entire congregations every Sunday. Another problem was in using homemade wine came in being driven from place to place - not having the opportunity or time to plant, harvest, and make the wine themselves; nor having the ability to preserve it without it spoiling over a short time. In answer to prayer by Joseph about these dilemmas, the Lord allowed the change to water for the Sacrament. That is my understanding; If anyone has different knowledge, would you please pass it on?
Robert KentMay 12, 2014
Another Symbol: why lds take water when they once took wine? And, other sacrament changes that are not scriptural. These symbols scream to us but we ignore them. Christ turned water into wine. Lds turned wine into water. By the water we keep the commandments. What do you think these sacrament changes symbolize?
Lenet Hadley ReadMay 12, 2014
This is indeed an important key. The term the scriptures themselves use to describe it is "similitudes" (Hosea 12;10). Nephi correctly taught that the chief meaning of all similitudes is the Christ (2 Nephi 11:4), which was also taught by the Savior himself (Moses 6:63). For example, the crossing of Joshua [whose Greek name is Jesus] over the Jordan was a similitude of Christ taking us over the vast sea of death to inherit the true Promised Land --- Eternal Life. We are safer if we look for those things which witness of the Christ, for they are vast!
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