Sarah Jane Weaver: He said even people of no faith should have a significant interest in religious liberty. That gives religious liberty a priority and a motivation.
And I surely have it there because of the persecutions suffered by my ancestors and the ancestors of my wife, Kristen. I like the analogy of having religious liberty in your DNA. Well, I have a real feeling for religious liberty. And so, we are trying to carve out the middle ground. Secondly, there are some people who think it is dominated by other considerations, legal and policywise. First of all, some people think it stands for too much that religious liberty should dominate every other consideration. Oaks: There are really two aspects to having more people understand religious liberty properly. We begin with President Oaks explaining what Latter-day Saints should understand about religious liberty. This episode of the Church News podcast, released on July 4, the United States’ Independence Day holiday, celebrates essential religious liberty freedoms and features President Oaks’ 2022 Church News interview in Rome. While he was in Rome, President Oaks also sat in the visitors’ center of the Rome Italy Temple and spoke to the Church News about religious liberty and why it should matter to people of all faith as well as those of no faith. He called for a global effort to defend and advance the religious freedom of all of the children of God in every nation of the world. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, offered a historic address at the 2022 Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit in Rome, Italy. Sarah Jane Weaver: Last year, President Dallin H. We are taking you on a journey of connection as we discuss news and events of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sarah Jane Weaver: I’m Sarah Jane Weaver, editor of the Church News.
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Without religious freedom, we are not free to do that. And fundamental to that doctrine is the right and the obligation of individuals to choose to do what keeps the commandments of God and what furthers the purpose of the gospel of Jesus Christ as He taught it. Oaks: The members of our Church are members of the restored Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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The baptism in the Holy Spirit, subsequent to conversion, releases the fullness of the Spirit and is evidenced by the fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit.S ubscribe to the Church News podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, bookshelf PLUS or wherever you get podcasts. He empowers the saints for service and witness, cleanses man from the old nature and conforms us to the image of Christ. The Holy Spirit is God, the Lord, and giver of life, who was active in the Old Testament and given to the Church in fullness at Pentecost. For man’s redemption, He left heaven and became incarnate by the Holy Spirit through the Virgin Mary henceforth, He is forever one Christ with two natures – God and man – in one person.ģ. He was together with the Father and the Holy Spirit from the beginning, and through Him all things were made.
He created man in His own image for fellowship and called man back to Himself through Christ after the rebellion and fall of man.Ģ. God, the Father, is the creator and sustainer of all things, and He created the universe in love.
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