Exploring Mormon Thought

We discuss how Jesus' life and atonement help solve the problem of evil.

https://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1122&index=11

Natural Evils

Topics Discussed:

• Can Radical Evils Benefit the Victims as an Essential Feature of God’s Plan of Atonement?

• Is It Justifiable to Permit Consent to Personality-Destroying Evils?

• Are Radical Evils Essential to the Plan of Atonement?

Refer to the outline here...specifically #9 for this episode: http://www.exploringmormonthought.com/2018/10/ep65-plan-of-atonement-theodicy-pt-2.html

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V15N01_61.pdf

My father has been out of town for two weeks and we ran out of buffer episodes so for this week I thought I would perform a reading of the King Follett Discourse. This discourse is very important to LDS Doctrine and is referred to a lot on this podcast so I thought it was relevant.

http://mldb.byu.edu/follett.htm

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/site/accounts-of-the-king-follett-sermon

Topics Discussed:

• Plan of Atonement Theodicy Outline

http://www.exploringmormonthought.com/2018/10/ep65-plan-of-atonement-theodicy-pt-2.html

Topics Discussed:

• The Nature of God's Providence

• The Nature of Intelligences

• The Ontological Status of Natural Laws

• God's Power

• God's Providential Knowledge

• The Nature of the Challenge of Learning to Love

Topics Discussed:

• Precedents in Mormon Thought for a Process Theodicy

• Basic Commitments of A Mormon Process Theodicy

• Criticisms of Process Theodicy

Topics Discussed:

• God’s Relation to Natural Regularities in the Tradition.

• Prospects of a Natural Law Theodicy in the Tradition of Ex Nihilo Creation.

• Mormon Finitism/Transhumanism

Topics Discussed:

• Gods Options and the Free Will Defense

• The Less Evil Options Argument from Evil