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]]> By: jacob http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2012/09/11/opposition-0-series-introduction/#comment-42538 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:12:39 +0000 http://feastuponthewordblog.org/?p=4043#comment-42538 Bizarre digression indeed! I feel like the fascinating construction in 2 Nephi 2:10 of Law versus Atonement, punishment versus happiness is not really illustrated by the idea of opposition. Verse 10 seems really crucial to salvation and perhaps exaltation, but I can’t figure it out by reading the rest of chapter 2. I’ve been studying the Book of Mormon for twenty years now and still haven’t made much headway in this chapter even though it’s one of my favorites. Therefore, I am really looking forward to this series.

]]> By: DLewis http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2012/09/11/opposition-0-series-introduction/#comment-42537 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:45:51 +0000 http://feastuponthewordblog.org/?p=4043#comment-42537 I’d be curious in how the idea of moral opposition was discussed in Christian circles around the time the BoM was published, but also how JS’s later revelations expound on, alter, or develop some of the ideas in 2 Ne. 2. We hear again and again that BoM doctrine wasn’t a major influence on early Mormon thought, but my hunch is that whether they were directly responding to it or not, a lot of developments in early Mormon theology touch on the issues raised there.

We also don’t have a real good explanation for why the most philosophical part of the BoM is a bizarre digression in the middle of a father’s blessing, which must have left everyone listening more than a little confused.

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