Joseph at his worst; Joseph at his best. Thoughts from study on Gospel Doctrine Lesson 4.   Lesson 4 of the gospel doctrine manual this year for Book of Mormon is on 1 Nephi 12-14, which is the rest of Nephi’s vision, continued from the previous lesson.  These chapters are troubling for me. Nephi is […]

  Listening to this podcast with Dale Luffman, retired apostle in the Community of Christ Church and Book of Mormon historian, I remembered another thought I had studying Lehi’s dream.   Lehi starts out the telling of his dream of the Tree of Life in 1 Nephi 8:4 with the words ‘methought I saw.’ The […]

  This is a companion piece to a blog post I wrote meant as light, devotional reading, inspired by the passage of Nephi’s vision of Jesus Christ in 2 Nephi 11, with emphasis on the question ‘Knowest thou the condescension of God’.  This will explore this same view from a metaphorical standpoint, ie a view […]

  1 Nephi 11:16-17 16 And he said unto me: Knowest thou the condescension of God? 17 And I said unto him: I know that he loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things.   Nephi was shown a vision to understand the interpretation of his father Lehi’s dream. After […]

  I plan to study the Book of Mormon more in depth this year, as we study it in Gospel Doctrine. Something I’m learning, is that as Grant Hardy said, when you take the Book of Mormon seriously and dive deep, not just the way LDS do traditionally in a devotional way, but also the […]