
What Were the Urim and Thummim? (Messages from God?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Uriman Thumium
In all cases except one, the answer is either yes or no. These are the only two cases where the reply can't be understood as a basically bionary, yes, no type answer. In other cases, the answer may be interpreted as something like, go up to battle, you will have suc s. It's just interpreted in a kind of yono, more fleshed out way. But the basic answer still looks binary. So i don't think that the passages where we have unambiguously complex answers can be counted upon to tell us anything about the uriman thumim. Despite my personal argument, it may be mine in the sense that i thought it,
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The Bible tells us that the Jewish high priest had two mysterious objects known as the Urim and Thummin to help him receive messages from God. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore what they were, how they worked, and what we know about them.
