“Ye cannot in your present state understand eternity…But ye can get some likeness of it if ye say that both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective… all this earthly past will have been Heaven to those who are saved… All their life on earth too, willContinue Reading

I have come to appreciate these words by Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin regarding the principle of compensation, and have seen this evident in my life: The third thing we can do is understand the principle of compensation. The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken awayContinue Reading

I really like this talk by David L. Paulsen given in 1999. He addresses the theodicy, or  problem of evil as it is posed. This problem is called “the ultimate test of any theological system” (Harold Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People, New York: Schocken Books, 1981, 6). Essentially PaulsenContinue Reading

Imagine that you live in Metropolis, and that you are on a first name basis with Superman.  You live on the 33rd floor of a high rise.  One night you wake up and to your horror you realize that your building is on fire.  You open the window and areContinue Reading