tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23560503.post3775022050240415439..comments2009-05-18T18:44:22.612-06:00Comments on Spherical Chickens: Temples, Sacraments, MysteriesLiz Busbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08505062751148555335noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23560503.post-3936505640285085272007-08-01T12:12:00.000-06:002007-08-01T12:12:00.000-06:00Don't worry Liz. We're all recovering intellectual...Don't worry Liz. We're all recovering intellectuals here!Paradoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11556645224257333706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23560503.post-78981846119553391852007-08-01T10:10:00.000-06:002007-08-01T10:10:00.000-06:00JKC: My question isn't necessarily on why somethin...JKC: My question isn't necessarily on why something physical is required, but why this particular physical action. I don't see any (logical) reason that we should be baptised with water instead of, say, walking across a bridge or miming death outside of the water or some such.Liz Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08505062751148555335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23560503.post-75626975790293146972007-07-30T23:18:00.000-06:002007-07-30T23:18:00.000-06:00"If you limit religion to intellect, you make it w..."If you limit religion to intellect, you make it what it should not be. One of the essential qualities of religion, says Lake, is mysticism. It is not logic."<BR/><BR/>I agree. And this is why I have limited patience with FAIR and FARMS. (Not to bag on your Nibley research.)<BR/><BR/>As far as why the physical necessity of baptism? For me, the best answer is the uniting of the physical and the abstract that abounds in Mormonism. For Joseph Smith, a religion that dealt in abstractions and lived only in the mind was not enough. In this church, God infuses every aspect of your being and the rituals that make grace effective in our lives are bodily as well as spiritual experiences. Hence baptism, hence the temple ordinances, hence the physical resurrection, etc.<BR/><BR/>And congrats and good luck on upcoming events.JKChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18318850320568944070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23560503.post-7097001987483691172007-07-30T13:12:00.000-06:002007-07-30T13:12:00.000-06:00I think it's rather disingenuous that when religio...I think it's rather disingenuous that when religious doctrine seems straightforward, C. S. Lewis calls it plain, intuitive, and eternal, and when it seems strange, he calls it mysterious and beyond human invention. (On the whole, however, I think the man's amazing.)<BR/><BR/>Congrats on going through the temple (and getting married, I assume).Bradenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02561613173295281689noreply@blogger.com