What Body is a Temple?

[Anonymous]

http://bycommonconsent.com/2013/08/22/the-body-as-a-temple/

I wrote this over at BCC, and I thought it was a good match for folks here to read. Also, I heartily recommend the book I mention in the post (Misreading Scripture Through Western Eyes). It was really great.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, I liked reading this. I hope tent enlarges soon. I don’t know what the limits are, but as far as I can tell, it’s too small now.

[Anonymous]

This reminded me of the scripture in Isaiah 1:18 too: the one about scarlet sins becoming white as snow. The original context refers to a people repenting of their sins as a people: specifically their social mistreatment of the weak and disadvantaged. I often wish that were re-emphasized, because it’s easy for an individual to be clean of sexual infractions, for example, and still be complicit in widespread oppression. In fact it will have to take concentrated effort by groups of people to throw off the oppressive structures that individual docility (promoted as such a virtue) keeps us locked into.

[Anonymous]

Riceandbeans wrote:

This reminded me of the scripture in Isaiah 1:18 too: the one about scarlet sins becoming white as snow. The original context refers to a people repenting of their sins as a people: specifically their social mistreatment of the weak and disadvantaged. I often wish that were re-emphasized, because it’s easy for an individual to be clean of sexual infractions, for example, and still be complicit in widespread oppression. In fact it will have to take concentrated effort by groups of people to throw off the oppressive structures that individual docility (promoted as such a virtue) keeps us locked into.

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[Anonymous]

Excellent blog post! I bore testimony during the Presidential elections about being Mormon first. That to think that all Mormons are conservatives actually hurts our missionary work and that we’re a world wide church so we’re all going to have different opinions on how to run a country. Despite this, we are all Mormon doing our best to live the Gospel and follow Christ’s example. During the testimony I said it way better, but that’s because it was totally by the Spirit. A couple of people afterward looked very upset with me but they never said anything so I could be totally wrong on that. However, many people appreciated what I said. Power of the Spirit yo.

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