tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10407988.post5441278066292902664..comments2023-08-05T21:48:58.831-04:00Comments on Philochristos: The Book of Mormon 11/18Sam Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15884738370893218595noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10407988.post-9574839505304445712011-10-26T16:49:02.215-04:002011-10-26T16:49:02.215-04:00Tyson, I use Yahoo Answers because I'm curious...Tyson, I use Yahoo Answers because I'm curious what ordinary Mormons will say. And usually, there'll be at least a couple of well-educated Mormons who will provide links to LDS material worth looking at, and that saves me from having to go look for it myself. So it's not totally useless.Sam Harperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15884738370893218595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10407988.post-73496184287554819372011-10-26T16:37:32.557-04:002011-10-26T16:37:32.557-04:00I think on this topic there is a lot of speculatio...I think on this topic there is a lot of speculation. Its like the question if Adam had a belly button? <br /><br />The core of the gospel is faith, repentance, baptism, and the gift of the Holy Ghost. These simple principals and ordinances are essential for salvation. Not understanding all the eternities in this mortality. <br /><br />Also, using Yahoo Answers as a basis for understanding LDS beliefs isn't a wise solution.Tysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00202084060373283675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10407988.post-33045022077110900662010-11-07T20:11:36.591-05:002010-11-07T20:11:36.591-05:00juana, thanks for your clarification. Do disorgan...juana, thanks for your clarification. Do disorganized intelligency have consciousness? Are they individuals? Are they persons? Or do they have to be organized before becoming individual persons with consciousness?Sam Harperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15884738370893218595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10407988.post-91268981339517239732010-11-07T13:58:24.864-05:002010-11-07T13:58:24.864-05:00Here's some clarification. We are eternal inte...Here's some clarification. We are eternal intelligences, but that intelligence has to be organized. Just like the matter unorganized described in Genesis had to be organized into a world. Intelligence also needs the context of an organization, or it cannot act.<br />For instance, a laser is a context for organizing electromagnetic waves, which are "eternal" There must be planning, or "authority" placed on the waves in order for them to be directed and function. Such is the nature of God the Father organizing spiritual beings from eternal intelligence... so that they could function under the authority of a "spiritual" and then "physical" body, have the ability to exercise agency and have joy in it's organized existence... As to the issue of "who was the first... God..." One can look at self-organized emergence, or mathematical automata where quanta interacts and develops into an organized system through symmetry. Such actions can be viewed through the context of Brownian Motion, where randomness produces clusters, which have in the physical context created bacterial colonies, or life. There is no reason to believe that physics is any different anywhere else, seen or unseen.Sarah Jensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02518565287679792868noreply@blogger.com