Posted by BrianJ on May 30, 2010
(This is an epilogue to two previous posts: When Abraham Knew and What if Abraham Failed the Test?)
It’s possible to conceive of a different version of the story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac, one where Abraham makes a different decision (and we learn a different lesson):
Instead of obeying, Abraham refuses on the grounds that killing the innocent is unjust. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Jim F. on May 29, 2010
One can reasonably argue that the book of Judges shows us the decline of Israel to a situation in which they have to have a king to lead them, and that the treatment of women that we see in Judges is a sign of that decline. One can also argue that Ruth is a response to that theme in Judges. How does the story of Hannah fit into that theme? Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Matthew on May 26, 2010
I took my title from Cheryl’s post on Joshua. And there is a similar question in my father’s post here. If you haven’t already, you may want to take a look at those posts and comments.
Here is a longer way of expressing the conflict present in the title of this post:
(1) God is good (something we can assert by definition or, more importantly, we can testify of through our experience with him). Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Jim F. on May 17, 2010
The story of Ruth occurs “in the days when the judges ruled” (Ruth 1:1). It is not, strictly speaking, in chronological order. Indeed, from here on out, you may wish to consult the Old Testament chronology in the Bible Dictionary if you wish to see the historical connectedness of the various stories. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by cherylem on May 16, 2010
Here are my notes for Lesson #19, on Judges
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Posted by cherylem on May 9, 2010
It has been quite a while since I’ve posted here, but I wanted to share my notes on Joshua, which I am teaching today:
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Posted by robf on May 7, 2010
Not sure how I’ve never heard this poem before, but today I was struck by the similarity between Joseph Smith’s encounter with Moroni and James Henry Leigh Hunt’s poem Abou Ben Adhem (published in England in 1834): Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by joespencer on May 7, 2010
In a long series of posts, I have worked through every passage in the Book of Mormon—as well as a number of the obvious predecessors in the Old Testament—employing the word “remnant.” What I would like to do now, finally, in a last post is to begin to formulate, on the grounds of all this work, an actual remnant theology in light of the Book of Mormon. I hope this is a satisfactory conclusion to all this work. Read the rest of this entry »
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