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