Listen Now

Interview with Blake Ostler about Vol. 4 of Exploring Mormon Thought AVAILABLE NOW—Exploring Mormon Thought, Vol 4: God's Plan to Heal Evil Now available for order from Greg Kofford Books: https://gregkofford.com/products/emt4

I am pleased to welcome back Thomas Jay Oord to the podcast. His new book 'Questions & Answers for God Can't' answers many questions that naturally follow from the ideas he presented in his previous work 'God Can't' In his best-selling book, God Can't: How to Believe in God and Love After Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils, Thomas Jay Oord solves the problem of suffering. Oord offers five aspects of a real answer to why a loving God doesn't prevent pointless pain. The most helpful: God can't stop evil singlehandedly. In this follow-up, Oord answers questions God Can't readers asked about his ground-breaking proposals. The answers are in this book, and they solve age-old conundrums. https://www.amazon.com/Questions-Answers-Cant-Thomas-Oord-ebook/dp/B087CBY4NW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Previous episodes on this topic: http://www.exploringmormonthought.com/2019/01/069-god-cant-thomas-jay-oord.html http://www.exploringmormonthought.com/2019/03/ep74-conspiring-prayer-with-mark-karris.html Show Notes: http://www.exploringmormonthought.com/2020/08/ep97-questions-answers-for-god-cant.html

Links: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02536/full https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmTFdCYALgY http://mormonpuzzlepieces.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-mind-body-problem-consciousness-and.html https://gradesfixer.com/free-essay-examples/benefit-of-mormon-solution-to-the-mind-body-problem-over-the-concept-of-dualism-epiphenomenology-behaviorism-and-identity/

095-Heavenly Mother (Part 3) by Exploring Mormon Thought

094-Heavenly Mother (Part 2) by Exploring Mormon Thought

093-Heavenly Mother (Part 1) by Exploring Mormon Thought

Did Joseph Smith teach spirit birth? He says no: http://signaturebookslibrary.org/line-upon-line-11/ He says yes (well, he really says 'maybe'): Go down to the article ‘A CONTINUATION OF THE SEEDS”: JOSEPH SMITH AND SPIRIT BIRTH Brian C. Hales* https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=mormonhistory The Idea of Pre-existence in the Development of Mormon Thought: (audio and a link to the paper): http://www.exploringmormonthought.com/2018/11/the-idea-of-pre-existence-in.html

Ep91-Sacramental Re-member-ing as At-one-ment-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 17 by Exploring Mormon Thought

090-The Atonement Heals the Broken Heart-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 16 by Exploring Mormon Thought

089-The Poison of Sin and Atonement-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 15 by Exploring Mormon Thought

088-The Mirror of Judgement-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 14 by Exploring Mormon Thought

087-Original Sin and the Human Condition-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 13 by Exploring Mormon Thought

086-The Nature of Being in the World-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 12 by Exploring Mormon Thought

085-Ways of Being in the World-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 11 by Exploring Mormon Thought

084-The Fruit of Our Mortal Lives-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 10 by Exploring Mormon Thought

083-The Cherubim's Sword-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 9 by Exploring Mormon Thought

082-We Are All Adam & Eve-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 8 by Exploring Mormon Thought

081-Human Sacrifice, Plural Marriage and the I-Thou Relation-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 7 by Exploring Mormon Thought

080-Zion as the Sacred Society Reflecting Divine Love-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 6 by Exploring Mormon Thought

Ep79-The Peer Relationship as Christology-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 5 by Exploring Mormon Thought