Book Of Mormon Lesson 21: Alma 5 – 7
"Have Ye Received His Image in Your Countenances?" Alma 5 - 7 Alma chapter 5 contains over 40 questions. What impact does Alma2 have as a teacher by asking so many rhetorical questions? Alma2's Sermon at Zarahemla: Alma chapter 5 In this sermon (presented by...
Book Of Mormon Lesson 21: Mosiah 29; Alma 1-4
"ALMA....DID JUDGE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTS" Mosiah 29:1-36 Mosiah2 writes against Kingship 29:5-33 What would be the purpose of Mormon inserting a primary document at this point? Is it because of this line? "And if the time comes that the voice of the people doth...
Revelation Bias Fair and Balanced Part 1
Sometimes only America's favorite family, the Simpsons, can most accurately demonstrate a point in the most simple and humorous terms. The full Simpsons’ episode that I am using to introduce my post is here if you want to watch it. If you’ve seen the episode and just...
There Is No End To Light
For about four years now I have been teaching the Priest Quorum in my ward here in Oregon. It is a calling I have thoroughly enjoyed. During that time in a young man's life, they start to really grapple with things. They no longer are willing to believe things...
Book Of Mormon Lesson 20: Mosiah 25-28; Alma 36
BOOK OF MORMON LESSON 20: MOSIAH 25-28; ALMA 36 Reunion at Zarahemla 25:1 At this point, three separate narratives have come together: the people of Mosiah2, people of Limhi, and the people of Alma 25:2 The Number of Nephites was greatly reduced in Omni 1:5 25:5,...
BOOK OF MORMON LESSON 19: MOSIAH 18-24
MOSIAH 18-24 "None Could Deliver Them but the Lord" With Mosiah 18, the Book of Mormon gets very complicated with its narratives. In Mosiah 7, we leave the story of King Mosiah2 and his people in Zarahemla and begin the story of Ammon who leads an expedition to the...
A Brief History of the Bible, Part IV: New Testament
This is Part 4 of Jared Anderson's Brief History of the Bible. For the timeline of the New Testament click here. New Testament Creation The New Testament as we have it did not exist for over three hundred years, though all books were written within a century of Jesus’...
BOOK OF MORMON LESSON 18: MOSIAH 12-17
. MOSIAH 12-17 In the following chapters we get a continuation of the prophet Abinadi's ministry to the Nephite people and their king, Noah, who live in the land of Nephi Abinadi Prophecies Destruction 12: 2 This prophecy is fulfilled in Mosiah 21:2-4. 12:3 This...
A Brief History of the Bible, Part III: New Testament Timeline
Christian Literature (According to Raymond Brown, Introduction to the New Testament [New York: Doubleday, 1997]) Apostolic Fathers based on Ehrman’s Loeb editions and Clayton Jefford’s Reading the Apostolic Fathers Lost Sources Lost Sources Writings of the Jerusalem...
BOOK OF MORMON LESSON 17: MOSIAH 7-11
Mosiah chapters 7-11 The story that Mormon tells in chapters 7-11 of Mosiah gets complicated. He uses some unique literary devices that the previous narrators had not used. These include embedded primary texts and flashbacks. Dr. Grant Hardy, Professor of...
BOOK OF MORMON LESSON 16: MOSIAH 4-6
"Ye Shall Be Called the Children of Christ" Mosiah 4-6 In Mosiah 4-6 we get a continuation of Mormon quoting directly the primary source of King Benjamin's speech. We must ask why he does so. 4:4 "My friends and my brethren, my kindred and my people" This is an...
A (Very) Brief History of the Bible Part II
Jared Anderson © 2012 Jewish Scriptures Creation Our word-saturated world renders it difficult for us to conceptualize the level of orality and lack of literacy that prevailed in antiquity. Only a small percentage of the population could read or write...
A Brief History of the Bible, Part I: Old Testament Timeline
We are excited to have guest blogger Jared Anderson present a series of posts on the history of the Bible. This brief series will first present a graphical overview of the history of the Jewish Scriptures followed by a narrative expansion, and then the New Testament...
BOOK OF MORMON LESSON 15: THE BOOK OF MOSIAH 1-3
MOSIAH 1-3 "Eternally Indebted to Your Heavenly Father" Beginning with The Words of Mormon, we are introduced to the second major narrator/historian of the Book of Mormon - Mormon himself. Since he is writing almost a thousand years after some of the events and...
A SUPER BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
Several years ago when The Da Vinci Code was published, I was intrigued by the outrage coming from Catholics and Protestant Christians and the lack of response by the LDS membership. As I began to investigate the claims made by the book, I was further intrigued...
BOOK OF MORMON LESSON 14: ENOS, JAROM, OMNI, WORDS OF MORMON
THE BOOK OF ENOS In The Book of Enos, we continue to follow the prophetic line that is through Jacob, the brother of 1 Nephi. Since it is still the small plates we are reading up to this point, we hear nothing of the king(s) of the Nephites. Faith as being...
LGBTQ Mormon Crisis
Two Printable handout for bishops and stake presidents that talks empirically about LGBTQ suicides:
The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis: Responding to the Empirical Research on Suicide
Youth Suicide Rates and Mormon Religious Context: An Additional Empirical Analysis
The Barker Brothers’ Projects
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