What is Eternalism?

[Music] President John Taylor first hinted at the term eternalism as a distinct philosophical system when he said we are acting in all things with reference to eternity we believe in eternal principles in an eternal gospel and eternal priesthood in eternal communications and associations everything associated with the gospel that we believe in is eternal elder BH Roberts described the critical relationship between religion and philosophy when he said the new dispensation is a system of philosophy as well as a religion indeed every religion that is worthwhile must be a philosophy it must give some accounting of things if it is to be of any permanent service in the world religion must appeal to the understanding as well as the emotional nature of man elder BH Roberts first used the term eternalism when he said eternalism is the term I would select as the best descriptive word for new dispensation philosophy for that term best represents its concepts an eternal universe with no beginning and no end eternal intelligence working in eternal duration without beginning or ending and without Ultimates and hence eternal progression elder John a wit so used the term eternalism when he said the gospel may be said to be the philosophy of eternalism the gospel is immersed in the ocean of eternity elder Neal a Maxwell also described the term eternalism when he said eternalism focuses on the individual and on those processes in which the individual is taught correct principles and then is given optimum opportunity to govern himself for those who believe we are all going to be around forever it is both natural and wise to concern ourselves with such questions and also with such principles which are also going to be around forever as explained by these latter-day Saint leaders both philosophy and theology are important to latter-day saints this is because eternal truths are both of a philosophical and theological nature eternalism then in the broadest sense is latter-day saint theology explained within a philosophically sound structure in the modules that follow we described the philosophical foundations and doctrines that set the restored gospel of Jesus Christ apart from other philosophies religions thank you for watching this video please subscribe to the Christian eternalism youtube channel and visit WWE tourism org

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Keywords: Latter-day Saint, Philosophy, Theology, Mormon

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Length: 2min 24sec (144 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 09 2019