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5/15/2025 Love is manifest by efforts calculated to stimulate, instigate, cause, or perpetuate goodness and improvement. We love others by making efforts calculated to stimulate, instigate, cause, or perpetuate goodness and improvement in their lives. We receive the love of others by accepting, receiving, and increasing the goodness and improvement offered. We love God by…
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5/11/2025 Men will worship gods after their own image, after their own likeness, after their own kind. Men will worship gods that look like them, talk like them, think like them, and align with what they think God should be. Men will worship gods that flatter them, entertain them, and who preach to them the…
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5/9/2025 A few days ago, I posted a YouTube video in which I discussed the concept of love in chastening. In this video, I discussed how God’s love often involves chastening, correction, and challenging emotions. It’s not easy being chastened and corrected, especially when it involves teachings that conflict with existing beliefs. Such teachings seldom…
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4/22/2025 So, I finally changed my website URL from PunitiveTruth.com to GreaterLightandTruth.com. There are many reasons for this, which I am not going to elaborate on. But I hope this new URL will invoke a more positive response than the previous one.
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In order for adult members of the LDS Church to enjoy full benefits and status within the LDS Church, they must be endowed and hold current Temple Recommends. This status allows them to attend the temple and enjoy all normal temple attendance privileges, including participating in initiatory, endowment, and sealing ordinances. This also allows them…
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The purpose of God is to facilitate the improvement and perfection of his children. He wants us to be better. He wants us to become perfect, even as he is perfect. This perfection includes many facets. Ultimately, our Father in Heaven, who is God, wants us to become like him. He wants us to become…
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Earlier this morning, I published a blog post entitled Concerning Baptism. Then, about an hour later, I received an email from the Living Scriptures people that quoted D&C 20 and gave some interesting perspectives. In this email, they pointed out that “all members of all priesthood offices should “warn, expound, exhort, and teach, and invite…
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In Doctrine and Covenants 20:37 we read, “And again, by way of commandment to the church concerning the manner of baptism—All those who humble themselves before God, and desire to be baptized, and come forth with broken hearts and contrite spirits, and witness before the church that they have truly repented of all their sins,…
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The laws of justice are immutable. They are always in force. We are always held accountable before God for the violation of the laws of justice. The laws of God, especially the laws of justice, are always accessible to our minds and hearts through the light of Christ, or through individual conscience. We are warned…
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Today, I made a YouTube video on this topic. Here are my notes. To hold the priesthood is to hold before others an example of righteousness. You will have a very hard time doing these things if you are filled with guilt and if you are derelict in your faith and repentance. This should help…
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