I began to reflect

Reflections on Joseph Smith and the Holy Scriptures: The Holy Bible, The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, The Doctrine and Covenants, The Pearl of Great Price, and Related Themes

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Mosiah 11 and the Elegant and Spacious Building

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The "great and spacious," or "large and spacious," building of Lehi's dream, elite-thronged-and-pouring-over-the-ba...

Mosiah's King Noah and the Prayer of Shalmaneser I

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As noted in former posts about the grain sheum and the metal ziff, and about the ornamentation of royal palaces and the Ancient Near Easter...

"That Great City Jacobugath": King Jacob's "Wine Vat-and-Press" (3 Nephi 7 and 9)

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When a would-be Book of Mormon king sought to found a rival nation in the Land Northward, the first official act of his reign, after being g...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Learning from The Book of Abraham: Our Choice

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If I have sinned, I have sinned outwardly; but surely I have contemplated the things of God ( Teachings: Joseph Smith ) I   Reasoning, Lea...

The Book of Abraham and Scholarship: An Invitation

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Why might a surviving physical instance of the ancient word, in plates or papyri, be requisite for some of our scriptures and not for other...

Examining the Catalyst Theory and the Book of Abraham

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By revelation or translation, as the case may be (Elder Bruce R. McConkie in 1985, 32 years ago) Nonsensical is the oft-celebrated but nev...
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2020 is the Bicentennial of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I dedicate this website not to the wise and the learned but to those of the rising generation, who, like the young Joseph Smith, are beginning to learn the things of God for themselves. "I began to reflect" is how Joseph describes his earliest yearnings for God. The Book of Mormon gives us added insights on the phrase: of Coriantumr we read "he began to remember"; "he began to repent." I began to reflect corresponds to I began to repent. I hold copyright for all postings and alone am responsible for all content. Nothing I post on Scripture should be considered an official or authoritative statement of the teachings or policies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I address all readers who love the truths revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith and all those who may yet learn to love them. I hold myself free from any investment whatsoever in polemics, apology, politics, religious controversy, or debate (see 1 Peter 1:15). "Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right." Val Hinckley Sederholm, PhD, Egyptology, UCLA.
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