5.8 Grace, works, and foreknowledge

Face in Hat

Two for one! Grace vs. works is one of our favorite topics, and the foreknowledge of God is another! The two articles from BYU Studies we are covering today relate to each other in fascinating ways. Join us as we discuss how we can approach Grace using LDS and Protestant theology, and how the paradoxes of omniscience can be used to discover more about our own relationship with reality, time, and agency. This was a fun one!

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Understandings of the Relationship between Grace and Works, by Terryl L. Givens

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/understandings-of-the-relationship-between-grace-and-works/

On the Foreknowledge of God: Time, Knowledge, Reality, Agency, by Rosalynde F. Welch

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/on-the-foreknowledge-of-god/

The full issue: Yet to be revealed, open questions in Latter-Day Saint theology. Edited by Eric A. Eliason and Terryl L. Givens

https://byustudies.byu.edu/journal/60-3/

(I think this is the one I was referring to! -Aaron)

After All We Can Do...Grace Works, by Robert L. Millet

https://deseretbook.com/p/after-all-we-can-do-grace-works-robert-l-millet-902?variant_id=132598-paperback

Believing Christ: The Parable of the Bicycle and Other Good News, by Stephen E. Robinson

https://deseretbook.com/p/believing-christ-parable-bicycle-other-good-news-stephen-e-robinson-3355?variant_id=108581-hardcover

Aaron’s top three talks :)

The Mediator, by Elder Boyd K. Packer

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1977/04/the-mediator

The Purifying Power of Gethsemane, by Elder Bruce R. McConkie

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1985/04/the-purifying-power-of-gethsemane

Beware of Pride, by President Ezra Taft Benson

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1989/04/beware-of-pride

Pelagianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagianism

Original Grace, by Adam S. Miller

https://www.amazon.com/Original-Grace-Adam-S-Miller/dp/1639930248

Book of Mormon infinite atonement: Alma 34: 9-14

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/34?lang=eng&id=p9-p14#p9

2 Nephi 9:7

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/9#p7

The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt by Parley P. Pratt

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44896

Our episode that includes the Great God by Orson Pratt

https://faceinhat.podbean.com/e/52-divinization-and-deity/

Exploring Mormon Thought: Volume 1, The Attributes of God, by Blake T. Ostler

https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Mormon-Thought-Attributes-God-ebook/dp/B0077YUTJE

Gospel Topic: God the Father

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/god-the-father

D&C 130:7, “...past, present, and future… are continually before the Lord.”

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/130?lang=eng&id=p7#p7

The “eternal now” quote: “the past, the present, and the future were and are, with Him, one eternal ‘now.’” History of the Church, 4:597, quoted here:

https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/content/knowledge-of-gods-plan

If You Could Hie to Kolob

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/music/library/hymns/if-you-could-hie-to-kolob

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/14434-space-is-big-you-just-won-t-believe-how-vastly-hugely

Joseph Smith and the Possibility of Comics Andrew Knaupp and Sal Velluto, Pillar of Light Mark Elwood, The Glass Looker Noah Van Sciver, Joseph Smith and the Mormons, by Eric W. Jepson

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/joseph-smith-and-the-possibility-of-comics-andrew-knaupp-and-sal-velluto-pillar-of-light-mark-elwood-the-glass-looker-noah-van-sciver-joseph-smith-and-the-mormons/