As I suggest (and arguably, Jesus suggests) in Part One of this series, demons are creatures of habit. A brief look at Matthew 12:43-45 reveals such: When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first… The reason for the return of the unclean spirit to the “house from which I came” is because even for a demon, home is where the heart is . They are also “creatures of habit.” Pattern recognition is noteworthy, simply because information retrieved from memory is applied to a stimulus or the event of receiving new information. So, because we can recognize patterns between Islam and Mormonism, it seems th...
Mormonism is theologically classified by different people in several different ways. One person will describe them as polytheists, another will describe them as henotheists, while another as monarchotheists, and yet another will describe them as panentheists. Metatheology is the study about theological systems which examines how theological claims are structured, categorized, justified, or conceptualized. So which theological system correctly describes Mormonism? I will argue that the answer to such a question depends on from which perspective one is addressing. In a nutshell, they are all correct to some degree, but perhaps incomplete by themselves. The Panentheism of Mormonism I first remember hearing the word, panentheism while living in northern California, and traveling to Mt. Shasta, where a serious number of New Agers reside. Panentheism means that God is in all things (pan ( all ) en ( in...