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LatestGrace Is Favor, Gift, and Power: What Chen, Chesed, and Charis Really Mean
Grace is more than forgiveness. The Hebrew chen and chesed and the Greek charis mean favor, loyal love, and a gift that creates a relationship. A word study on grace in Paul’s world, 2 Corinthians 12:9 and Ether 12:27, and why Latter-day Saints call grace an enabling power.
Grace Is Favor, Gift, and Power: What Chen, Chesed, and Charis Really Mean
Grace is more than forgiveness. The Hebrew chen and chesed and the Greek charis mean favor, loyal love, and a gift that creates a relationship. A word study on grace in Paul’s world, 2 Corinthians 12:9 and Ether 12:27, and why Latter-day Saints call grace an enabling power.
Read More“A Different Jesus”? The Christ of 3 Nephi 11 and the New Testament
Critics say Latter-day Saints worship “another Jesus” (2 Corinthians 11:4). Put the Christ of 3 Nephi 11 beside the Christ of the New Testament, from the Father’s voice to the wounds in His hands, and see the four fallacies the slogan depends on.
Read More“You’re Polytheists”: What Paul Said in 1 Corinthians 8:5–6
Critics call Latter-day Saints polytheists. Check what the word means, read Paul’s “gods many… but to us there is but one God, the Father” in context, and see the four fallacies the label depends on.
Read More“You Twist the Bible”: Who’s Really Cherry-Picking?
Critics say Latter-day Saints twist the Bible. Run the cherry-picking test on Psalm 82:6, 1 Corinthians 15:29, James 2:24, and Ephesians 4:11–14, and see whose position needs verses to disappear, with the fallacies named.
Read MoreBook of Mormon Evidence, Part 9 of 10: Could the Plates Work?
Critics say gold plates would weigh too much and could never hold the Book of Mormon. Josh Coates modeled 4,164,048,000 versions of the plates against the witnesses’ descriptions, and about 865,000 still fit. Here is the math, the alloy, the copper disc test, ancient writing on metal, and the fair caveats. Part 9 of 10.
Read MoreBorn “at Jerusalem”? Why Alma 7:10 Points Toward an Ancient Book, Not a Mistake
Book of Mormon Evidence · Alma 7:10Critics have laughed at Alma 7:10 since 1831. Read the verse...
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