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Hello! There are periodically threads started on CF regarding the interpretation of Genesis 6:1-4. They can get quite heated as posters debate whether the "sons of God" were human or angelic. I've come around to the angelic interpretation, partly because I've read it's better supported by the...

I've read various accounts of the First Vision where Joseph Smith claims that God told him that "all their creeds were an abomination in his sight". So I'm curious about this: what statements in our creeds are abominable? Would any LDS member like to choose a creed and explain?

Hello Claire Evans, you expressed an interest in early Judaism's relationships with nearby ancient religions. I've had an interest in it myself, and think it's a fascinating subject. I mentioned Ugarit in the thread title because it was the most Israelite-like religion in the area. Now, you...

I'd like to throw out an idea and get some thoughts on it. It appears to me that one of the big problems with abiogenesis theory is a kind of chicken-and-egg problem. DNA, by itself, doesn't do anything; it's a memory store that is acted upon by other chemicals. Where do those chemicals come...

Genesis says that Eve was taken from Adam. But what does that mean? Believe it or not, I've heard that creation of a kind of male-to-female copy might be possible by lopping off a Y chromosome and replacing it with a copy of the X chromosome. So given the descriptions of Eve's creation and...

I don't want to bust on you guys, but I've got a question: did the God of the LDS create the universe? Among Christians the answer is pretty clear-cut: he did, because he's been spirit "from everlasting to everlasting". But the God of the LDS was once a man. Did he create the universe?

I've learned a lot about the LDS on this board, and occasionally an LDS-related question pops into my head. Here's one I've been wondering about. In the First Vision, God reportedly tells Joseph Smith that all the existing creeds are abominations. That message presumably includes the...

There are a multitude of problems getting from nonlife to life. Here's Eugene Koonin, a well-known researcher in the fields of evolutionary and computational biology. A brilliant man, by all accounts. Get a load of a solution he published a few years ago. He's not appealing to biology at all...

That's the charge by Dr. Brian Mattson, here at Sympathy For The Devil — Dr. Brian Mattson. Here's the beginning of it: His review goes on and on, and is, I think fascinating. The director, Aronofsky, knew exactly what he was doing: creating a movie with a Gnostic and Kabbalistic world...

It's the most science-minded hobby I have, the study of the acoustics of musical instruments. It's an esoteric hobby, but maybe not in this place. Does anyone else here share this?

...where the sons of God take human women as wives, and giants are born to them. Just curious, that's all. There are ancient Judeo-Christian explanations of it, but I wondered what our modern religions teach about it.

I saw a thread like this in GT and it was a lot of fun. Let's try it here. Someone start by posting an outrageous lie about me.

In the OT, God creates the stars. If the Mormon God were once like us, did he then live in a starless universe?

How does the LDS get around Paul's requirement that a bishop be "the husband of one wife" in 1 Timothy 3?

In Christian Bibles, Ephesians 5:19 typically says something like this: The Lord has been identified as Jesus Christ in chapter 1. So this verse is exhorting us to sing and make melody to Jesus. But the NWT version of the same verse says this: The NWT adds the phrase "to God", and...

From what I’ve seen in this forum, the deity of Christ is one of the most constantly-discussed topics. It’s one of the first things every offshoot of Christianity lays aside. I’ve seen us argue over all kinds of NT verses, this way and that. But I suspect there’s something many of you...

This is a recent article posted by ICR that is of particular interest to me. This is of personal interest to me because I was confronted with this once during an online debate (not on CF) and had no answer. So today I'm pleased as punch. This particular argument has been a big deal to...

Hello, I'm trying to find out who publishes the "Divine Name King James Bible". I suspect it's associated somehow with the Jehovah's Witnesses, but the association is hidden. The publishers are unnamed. Their contact is a post office box. Even domain name whois searches (dnkjv.com...

Hello, I have a question for Jehovah's Witnesses concerning the NWT's use of "Jehovah" in the book of Colossians. I've been told that we possess no NT manuscripts that contain Jehovah, YHWH, or any variant thereof in Colossians (or indeed in any NT book). Assuming this is true, my question...

I think one evidence of God's design is that the same biological features have supposedly originated independently in separate branches of the evolutionary tree. And now, in a recent paper, with the title "Multiple independent appearances of the cecal appendix in mammalian evolution and an...