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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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“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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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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“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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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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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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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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“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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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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“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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GREATER LIGHT AND TRUTH 