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		<title>Is there Biblical Precedence for Polygamy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Lindquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the recent post &#8220;A quest for spiritual knowledge&#8220;, the comments quickly became centered around two distinct topics.  The one being blacks and the priesthood, which was thoroughly covered within the comments on that post.  The other was regarding the practice of polygamy early in the church.  It was to this point that Matt G. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there evidence for the Book of Mormon – the answer may surprise you</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tina, on the post &#8220;Seeking for evidence&#8221; asked today: Please give me the name of one renowned historian who takes the Book of Mormon serious. Tina, I appreciate your question.  I have your answer.  Before I share it, I think it&#8217;s important to note why so many ask this question. The Book of Mormon presents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do Mormons believe in Works?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 15:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel, in the post &#8220;Do Mormons have more than one God?&#8221; (page 3 of the comments), asked a very important question pertaining to the mercy, the atonement of Christ, and the role of works in achieving exaltation. This is one of the most frequently asked questions I encounter.  He accurately notes that there are scriptures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conceptual Distillation &#8211; is Mormonism true?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Lindquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it, life is full of gray.  It&#8217;s complex.  Everything we do simply entails so much.  Every decision we make can lead to a dizzying number of unforeseen outcomes. In fact, there&#8217;s so much complexity around the decisions we make that it&#8217;s often amazing we make any decisions at all.  And as you might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking for evidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently the topic of evidence-seeking has come up frequently in comments on my posts, and I decided it warranted further exploration. Is it weakness or folly to believe without evidence as Larry suggests in the comments here?  Or is it weakness or folly to require evidence to believe? Must one have physical proof in order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picking the lock of salvation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who weren&#8217;t aware, last week was the national HOPE conference in New York.  No, this isn&#8217;t a self-help conference teaching us how to increase our capacity to hope (I wish it were).  Rather, it&#8217;s a gathering of some of the most talented and well-known hackers around the planet.  HOPE stands for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whose answer is right?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Lindquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my &#8220;Ask a Mormon&#8221; page, Brad asks a very important question (summarized): If Mormons claim that the best way to know if their church is true is by a witness from the Spirit, how do you counter the argument that others in different religions have claimed to have received their own witness? I can&#8217;t say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Mormons have more than one god?</title>
		<link>http://mormonconversations.com/are-mormons-polytheistic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Lindquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a page (here), where I allow people to ask questions about Mormonism.  On June 27th, Mitch.4.Him asked the following: Mormon Apostle Orson Pratt taught, &#8220;We were begotten by our Father in Heaven; the person of our Father in Heaven was begotten on a previous heavenly world by His Father; and again, He was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unbaptized babies will be saved</title>
		<link>http://mormonconversations.com/your-baby-is-not-going-to-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are one who has suffered the loss of a child that was not baptized, and have been coldly told by your church that your child is damned, and will go to hell, I testify to you in the name of Christ that this is false doctrine.  It&#8217;s simply not true.  What&#8217;s more, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researching Mormonism &#8211; a Lutheran Bishop&#8217;s advice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Lindquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of non-Mormons find my blog through search engines, and I&#8217;m often surprised at the search phrases they use that lead them here.  Many are derogatory, some surprise me (e.g. can Mormons swim in a public pool?), But many I get illustrate a complete lack of understanding about what Mormons truly believe, which is [...]]]></description>
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