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My Ten Commandments for Finding Peace and Joy in Jesus
So I just uploaded two videos to YouTube: My Ten Commandments (personal minimums) 7 Rules for Finding Peace and Joy in Jesus Here are my notes for these two videos: My Ten Commandments …what I feel the Lord would have me do now to have faith and repent: Read these Ten Commandments every morning when…
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Statecraft and Secret Societies
Statecraft is the “craft” of using the power of the “state,” or government, to get wealth and power and to do evil without negative legal consequences. Statecraft is always characterized by the abuse of government authority in violating the rights of the people. Statecraft is the use of government power and authority for dishonest, corrupt,…
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The Improper Role of Government
Since the beginning of civilization, governments (and churches) have been used as get-rich-quick-schemes. Since the beginning, evil, greedy, and designing people have used these institutions to amass wealth and power, and for self-aggrandizement. This is improper. It is improper for civil governments and for religious governments alike. In ancient days, a righteous king was viewed…
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The Proper Role of Government
The proper role of government is to protect the fundamental rights of all people. Any additional roles or functions must be agreed upon and delegated to the government by the citizenry. These additional functions should probably be limited to providing essential infrastructure like roads and utilities, or regulating safety-sensitive activities, like transportation, manufacturing, or potential…
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Political Ideologies
Whether we are talking about God-given rights or humanity to humanity-given rights, as explained, the codified results should be the same. So, whether you are an atheist, agnostic, deist, or any form of religionist, you ought to be content with the superlative justness of the cause, that all human beings are equal in their rights…
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Fundamental Rights and Liberties Listed Categorically
The right to equity under the law – It is reasonable and equitable for all humans to grant all other humans the right to equity under the law. If we are to leave theology out of the equation, then it should be considered entirely reasonable for all individual members of the human species to grant…
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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…
Copyright Jared Eastley
GREATER LIGHT AND TRUTH 