I thought I wasn’t going to get vol. 2 for Christmas because I couldn’t find anywhere online to buy it. From what I gathered, Kofford Books has it set up so that you have to buy it before knowing how much you are paying. That website needs some major changes.

Fortunately I accidentally discovered it in the local LDS themed bookstore (which has a monopoly on all of Houston). It was marked down and so it was an especially sweet deal for me. Thanks for the great Christmas present Blake.

Of course the creation spoken of can be a timeless creation. Nothing about creatio ex nihilo (as traditionally interpreted) requires that the universe be created at some specific time in the past. It just means that everything that exists has some sort of dependence on divine providence: logical, temporal, or causal or any combination of the three.

It is pretty easy for everything to be a reflection of divine grace under conditions like that.

Until you get your Kofford peeps to start printing more runs of your books (particularly Vol. 2) and also tell them to use better binding materials/techniques after printing said runs, I think that you should not dare say anything about them.

I simply can’t tolerate lending my copies out anymore (I re-read them too often and am irritated at how easy the pages spilt out of the binding).

All the consubstantial stuff is meaningless when set apart from creatio ex nihilo, although I suppose it might have some relevance relative to the idea of static perfection, a concept which would make the Father and the Son have identical divine attributes in all but name.

Jacob J: ultimately this post grew out of my own wish to borrow the term “begotten, not made” to describe our relationship with Heavenly Father, but I needed to make sure I could do so without stumbling on “being of one substance with the Father”.