Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00508)

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 15:30:53 -0000 "Steve Stubbs <stevestubbs@yahoo.com>"
<stevestubbs@yahoo.com> writes:

> That seems at least halfway rational, whereas the idea that you are 
> going to come driving up out of he ground after rotting for 
> thousands of yeats seems a bit wacky to me. In either care an extreme
egotism 
> seems to be at work. 

I guess those people who have a firm belief in creationism can also
readily except resurrection. After all, if an all powerful god can
fashion a man out of the dust of the earth and give him life, that god
can also reconstitute a body for those so worthy.

This whole concept is what put me at odds with Mormonism. They went half
way by rejecting creationism but still clinging to ressurection. Brigham
Young taught that Adam was a transplant from another planet, born of a
mother and father there and brought here. His famous line is that if
Elohim had fashioned Adam from the dust of the earth as reported in the
Bible "he would have remained an adobe th this day." 

So I was musing one day, that if man was indeed not fashioned from the
ground but needed to be born in some fashion then the logic of
resurrection also did not follow. But we do get new bodies. We are "born
again." And that's reincarnation. So when that revelation hit me, I began
searching for more evidence of that in Mormonism.I found it, but the fact
was always denied. Mormons have that sitting fight in front of them but
refuse to see it. Anyway, that was the beginning of the end for me there,
but I hung out for a number of years until Theosophy was manifested to
me.

Now all that seems so childish, yet so many people are caught up in it
and refuse to look to the light.

Larry

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