5.8 Grace, works, and foreknowledge

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! Link to our Face in Hat discord server! https://discord.gg/MnSMvKHvwh Dialogue Podcast Network https://www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/ 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/