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Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

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2017

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Miracles As Evidence For The Existence Of God, Alan G. Padgett Jan 2017

Miracles As Evidence For The Existence Of God, Alan G. Padgett

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Obadiah 1:21 Context, Text, Interpretation, And Application, Dana M. Pike Jan 2017

Obadiah 1:21 Context, Text, Interpretation, And Application, Dana M. Pike

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Latter-day Saints have frequently used the phrase “saviors on mount Zion” in relation to proxy temple work for the dead. This phrase comes from the twenty-first, and last, verse of Obadiah, a prophetic book in the Old Testament. But many people have little awareness of or experience with the previous twenty verses in the book, nor with the intriguing contextual questions those verses raise for understanding verse 21, with its phrase “saviours shall come up on mount Zion” (KJV1; note the British spelling with a u; used herein only in quotations). Furthermore, there has been little Latter-day Saint discussion of …