Since the posts have come based on my previous week’s thoughts and readings without any organization, a navigation guide has become essential. We now have a static page titled Reader’s Guide that guides newcomers and provides a reference for previous users. For those that use ‘RSS’ to get updates the Subscribe link has the appropriate file. The rest of this post is a copy of the Reader’s Guide.

Introduction

This page introduces new readers to mostmovedmover.com and provides a smoother navigation through the posts for those that come back each week. This page will be updated often and can be found at Post Navigation. For those that use ‘RSS’ to get updates the Subscribe link has the appropriate file.

• About me - A brief introduction about how mostmovedmover.com came to be.
• Who is the ‘Most Moved Mover’? - This post provides a brief history of the phrase ‘Most Moved Mover’ and some context about how this topic has not been pondered in the context of omniscience and agency.

Topics

Latter-Day testimonies of openness

These posts reference Latter-Day Saint voices that reference the concepts associated with God having a contingent future.

• Latter-Day Saint Voices on Openness - Quotes on the openness of God from two of the great religious philosophers from the Latter-Day Saint tradition. This post highlights that these ideas have been discussed and affirmed within writings of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for decades.
• [Can God be surprised?../can-god-be-surprised/) - This post builds on Elder Holland’s interpretation of the Brother of Jared theophany in Christ and the New Covenant. In this post, we carefully describe the type of surprise that God can experience.
• Understanding the Brother of Jared’s Experience - A full excerpt from the chapter on the brother of Jared in Christ and the New Covenant.
• Can God marvel? - A summary of a few impactful clips of a Neal A. Maxwell conversations podcast between Terryl Givens and Steven Peck. Givens and Peck share some insightful ideas about God’s interaction with us and this planet as well as many ideas that relate to the concepts discussed here at mostmovedmover.com.
• Are ‘Most Moved Mover’ and ‘Divine Designer’ synonymous? - In this post, Elder Rasband’s “By Divine Design”, Elder Renlund’s “Choose You This Day” and Elder Uchtdorf’s “Your Adventure through Mortality” are weaved together to share a picture of how ‘Divine Designer’ and ‘Most Moved Mover’ are similar titles.

Ponderings on the attributes and qualities of God

• Does God exercise faith? - We discuss the faith of God and how this attribute provides an understanding of his other attributes. We see how faith requires a future and how God’s faith and man’s faith are of the same essence.
• Does God live within time? - This post will clearly show that God lives within a sequenced time and that he is not beyond time (though his time is different from ours).
• What is the foreknowledge of God? - This post highlights how the LDS belief of a pre-mortal existence helps frame our understanding of the phrases foreknowledge and foreordain. It also attempts to provide LDS members a context to hear these two phrases without forcing them to imply that they are related to God knowing the fixed future.
• Does foreknowledge mean we are all on a God-fixed path? - This post provides my first space to discuss foreknowledge. I highlight some quotes from John Sanders in “Does God have a Future?” and chapter 3 of “Jesus the Christ” by James E. Talmage.
• [Can we enjoy something God cannot enjoy?../can-we-enjoy-something-god-cannot-enjoy/) - God of the possible by Gregory Boyd helped me ponder the phrase in D&C 130:2 that says, “that same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there.” I also include related quotes from Brigham Young.

Scriptural testimonies of openness

• [What are the Omniscience of God references in the LDS Topical Guide?../how-is-the-omniscience-of-god-referenced-in-the-lds-topical-guide/) - This post reviews each of the scripture references under omniscience in the topical guide. We also look at some great quotes by Gregory Boyd.
• How does Moses 7 frame God’s knowledge of the future? - When pondering the concepts associated with an openness view of God Moses 7 and 1 Nephi 13 are often brought up as scriptures that show God has fixed future omniscience. This post uses Moses 7 to highlight how the full chapter provides a rich understanding of the balance between omniscience, wisdom, prayer, faith, love, and agency.

Ponderings on principles associated with openness

• Is prophecy conditional or set in stone? - This post pulls the highlights from an article by Dr. Richard L. Pratt, Jr titled, ‘Historical Contingencies and Biblical Predictions’ that had some insightful ideas about prophets and prophecies.
• Inspiration, Revelation, and God’s Will: Temples and Gordon B. Hinckley - This post provides a background context to President Hinckley 1997 revelation about small temples. In this post, I share a conception of how revelation works in concert with agency.
• Is prayer a test or a relationship? - Prayer as a relationship where our petitions move God to answer abounds in the scripture. This post highlights how our prayers move God and how the path of truth is built through prayer as we combine with our Father to decide the future.
• The healing of Pheobe Woodruff - A direct quote from President Wilford Woodruff’s journal about prayer, healing, faith, and heaven.
• Should we try to understand God? - I share some thoughts on the struggle to understand God’s attributes build on great quotes from BH Roberts, Patrick Mason, Andrew Skinner, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Henry Drummond.

Posts that are not completed or more general

• Is Jesus real? - A short message about Christ on Easter. It includes the 2015 Easter video published the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
• Can randomness be part of God’s plan? - This post builds on topics around randomness and the plan of salvation. It is not complete and will change as I develop my thoughts.
• Does God have a future? - In this post, we look at a few references from the Doctrine and Covenants (D&C) as we evaluate some quotes from John Sanders about openness theology.

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