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Fundamental Rights and Liberties
It would be useful if the Bible were to enumerate a list of fundamental God-given rights and liberties, but it does not. The Book of Mormon does much more than the Bible in promoting the principles of fundamental rights and liberties, but the Book of Mormon is not universally respected among Christians as divinely authentic,…
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Agency: The First Law of Heaven
Agency is the gift of God to all animal beings giving them the ability and right to choose what they will think and do. It is the ability and right to self-determination. It is choice. It is freedom. It is liberty. It is the dignity to represent oneself on the cosmic stage of action, reaction,…
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The Rule of Law
The Rule of Law is the restriction of inconsistent and arbitrary rules by establishing well-defined, equitable, and just laws that are strictly enforced. Where the Rule of Law prevails, nobody is above the law. Where the Rule of Law prevails, government executives, legislators, judges, and all elected and appointed government officials are strictly bound by…
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The Structure of Law in a Pluralistic Universe
We live in a pluralistic world and in a pluralistic universe. Not everybody is the same. Not everybody wants to be the same. Not everybody believes the same. Not everybody wants to live the same. Not everybody wants the same laws, the same standards, or the same cultural parameters. And believe it or not, God…
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Faith and Repentance
These are my notes from a video with Robert Smith and Todd McLaughlin. There is a mountain of deep doctrine and value here, so I very much want to share this with you. I hope you will watch the video and read and ponder this material with prayerful sincerity. We need to initiate the Lord…
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The Nature of Evil
“And Adam and Eve blessed the name of God, and they made all things known unto their sons and their daughters. And Satan came among them, saying: I am also a son of God; and he commanded them, saying: Believe it not; and they believed it not, and they loved Satan more than God. And…
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The Opposition to Virtue
Virtue is voluntary obedience to truth. Virtue is characterized by consistently following specific principles, rules, and standards of morality. Virtue generally implies a combination of goodness, integrity, sexual purity, self-discipline, and honor. Philosophically, increasing virtue is to move from chaos to creation. It is to willingly be intelligently governed by the goodness of light and…
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The Nature of Happiness
“And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell with…
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The Straight and Narrow Path
I just published a new video: The Straight and Narrow Path. This video references The Glory of God is Intelligence, by Robert Smith. I talk about how following the straight and narrow path requires accepting new truth that is offered to us. Often this truth contradicts what we previously thought was true. .
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About Jesus
Jesus is the most abused, slandered, misunderstood, underappreciated, disbelieved, misrepresented, and rejected person in history. Those who choose to follow Jesus, who walk in his footsteps, can expect to be likewise abused, slandered, misunderstood, underappreciated, disbelieved, misrepresented, and rejected. If this has not been your experience, then it is entirely likely that whatever it is…
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Awareness from God
An excerpt from The Glory of God is Intelligence, by Robert Smith, p. 39. If you do not own this book, you should. Get it and read it. Increased awareness can come from God or Satan. Both possess awareness beyond your own, and both have a reason to give you more, but the reasons differ. God…
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Following the Light of Christ
“And the light which shineth, which giveth you light, is through him who enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth your understandings; which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space—the light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is the…
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Defining Good and Evil
Updated on Feb 3, 2023 That which is good can be defined as that which has the most value, or positive value. That which is evil can be defined as that which has less value, or negative value. God is good because He offers us the most value. Satan is evil because He offers us…
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Our Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent
“The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth.”[1] Intelligence is light and truth.[2] It is the correct knowledge, understanding, and application of truth. We increase in knowledge and intelligence through diligence and obedience.[3] We are to be diligent in doing the best good we can do, in obedience to God’s…
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Beware the Narrative
Absolute truth comes from God; everything else is narrative. Narrative is almost always compromised. There are a million ways, reasons, and motivations for compromise when expressing narrative. Often enough, the compromised aspect of narrative is unintentional and even unavoidable; but, more often than not, the truth in any given narrative is compromised quite intentionally. So,…
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Truth Defined
“Truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come… “The Spirit of truth is of God.” [1] “The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth.”[2] By these verses we learn that truth is knowledge of things as they are, as they…
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Why Truth Matters
Revised: 11/9/2024 What you see, what you perceive, and what you understand of the existence you find yourself in is fundamentally incomplete and inaccurate compared with the absolute truth of what is actually in existence in the world and universe around you. Deep down you know this is true, and this bothers you. After all,…
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What is Reality?
Revised: 11/7/2024 The American filmmaker George Lucas reputedly said, “Your focus determines your reality.” What Lucas is referring to is your subjective or perceived reality, not your actual reality. He is suggesting that what we are not focused on simply does not seem real to us. Inversely, what we focus on seems not only very real, but…
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Prepare the Way of the Lord
Revised: 11/7/2024 Most Christians think they already have the Kingdom of God, or that they have already entered the Kingdom of God, or that they are already somehow a part of it. They do this because they erroneously suppose that they know what the Kingdom of God is, where it is, how it is, and…
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Welcome
This website is primarily created for the development of my new book: Glorious Truth – A Preparation for the Kingdom of God. I shall post the Table of Contents and then each chapter as they become ready for review. As these are modified, I shall update each blog post accordingly, with a new version number…
GREATER LIGHT AND TRUTH 