How to Use the Blog
This blog has a companion website. Clicking the link to the right of the blog entitled "talk hard, be heard - Resources" will guide you to my website that contains full versions of material that I reference in the blog. I am an amateur web-guy, so be nice if you don't like the sites.
How the Blog Works:
-Joe
How the Blog Works:
- I read something interesting.
- I post a response to the blog, and maybe include a quote or two from the original piece.
- I put the piece (in its entirety) up on the Resource website, and include a hyperlink from the text of the blog posting (it might just be denoted by different colored text, not necessarily a "www. . ." address - click on it to jump to the site).
- You read the blog.
- You either respond by clicking "post comment" and drafting a reply; or you investigate the full article by clicking on the hyperlink to the resource website.
- If you investigated the article and now have some thoughts, return to the blog and post. NOTE: On the "Home" page of the Resource website there is a link to the blog entitled "visit the blog."
- Visit the blog often, read, enjoy, and participate!!
- If you do this, I get an A in class, we learn a lot about peace, and maybe find answers to really tough questions.
-Joe
posted by talk hard, be heard at 8:00 AM
1 Comments:
When (if ever) is it appropriate for an LDS person to engage in war? Three Book of Mormon scriptures might be helpful to understand the LDS view:
Alma 43:46-47
46 And they were doing that which they felt was the DUTY which they owed to their god; for the Lord had said unto them, and also unto their fathers, that: Inasmuch as ye are not guilty of the first offense, neither the second, ye shall not suffer yourselves to be slain by the hands of your enemies.
47 And again, the Lord has said that: Ye shall defend your families even unto bloodshed. Therefore for this cause were the Nephites contending with the Lamanites, to defend themselves, and their families, and their lands, atheir country, and their rights, and their religion.
From Alma 48:14-15, 23-25
14 Now the Nephites were taught to defend themselves against their enemies, even to the shedding of blood if it were necessary; yea, and they were also taught never to give an offense, yea, and never to raise the sword except it were against an enemy, except it were to preserve their lives.
15 And this was their faith, that by so doing God would prosper them in the land, or in other words, if they were faithful in keeping the commandments of God that he would prosper them in the land; yea, warn them to flee, or to prepare for war, according to their danger;
23 Now, they were sorry to take up arms against the Lamanites, because they did not delight in the shedding of blood; yea, and this was not all—they were sorry to be the means of sending so many of their brethren out of this world into an eternal world, unprepared to meet their God.
24 Nevertheless, they could not suffer to lay down their lives, that their wives and their children should be massacred by the barbarous cruelty of those who were once their brethren, yea, and had dissented from their church, and had left them and had gone to destroy them by joining the Lamanites.
25 Yea, they could not bear that their brethren should rejoice over the blood of the Nephites, so long as there were any who should keep the commandments of God, for the promise of the Lord was, if they should keep his commandments they should prosper in the land.
And from 3 Nephi 20:20-21:
20 And it shall come to pass, saith the Father, that the sword of my justice shall hang over them at that day; and except they repent it shall fall upon them, saith the Father, yea, even upon all the nations of the Gentiles.
21 And it shall come to pass that I will establish my people, O house of Israel.
There are some interesting principles taught in these basic verses found in the Keystone Scripture.
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