Exploring Mormon Thought

We discuss how Jesus' life and atonement help solve the problem of evil. https://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1122&index=11

Natural Evils

Topics Discussed: • Can Radical Evils Benefit the Victims as an Essential Feature of God’s Plan of Atonement? • Is It Justifiable to Permit Consent to Personality-Destroying Evils? • Are Radical Evils Essential to the Plan of Atonement? Refer to the outline here...specifically #9 for this episode: http://www.exploringmormonthought.com/2018/10/ep65-plan-of-atonement-theodicy-pt-2.html

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V15N01_61.pdf

My father has been out of town for two weeks and we ran out of buffer episodes so for this week I thought I would perform a reading of the King Follett Discourse. This discourse is very important to LDS Doctrine and is referred to a lot on this podcast so I thought it was relevant. http://mldb.byu.edu/follett.htm https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/site/accounts-of-the-king-follett-sermon

Topics Discussed: • Plan of Atonement Theodicy Outline http://www.exploringmormonthought.com/2018/10/ep65-plan-of-atonement-theodicy-pt-2.html

Topics Discussed: • The Nature of God's Providence • The Nature of Intelligences • The Ontological Status of Natural Laws • God's Power • God's Providential Knowledge • The Nature of the Challenge of Learning to Love

Topics Discussed: • Precedents in Mormon Thought for a Process Theodicy • Basic Commitments of A Mormon Process Theodicy • Criticisms of Process Theodicy

Topics Discussed: • God’s Relation to Natural Regularities in the Tradition. • Prospects of a Natural Law Theodicy in the Tradition of Ex Nihilo Creation. • Mormon Finitism/Transhumanism

Topics Discussed: • Gods Options and the Free Will Defense • The Less Evil Options Argument from Evil