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The Literary Power of the Doctrine and Covenants

… created by the human mind that relates the story of people and the various events, settings, and thoughts that make up … as sacred literature. Applying this understanding to the Doctrine and Covenants, we can find a wide variety of literary elements. …

Literary Craftsmanship of the Joseph Smith Story

… By now, the existence of several first- and secondhand versions of Joseph Smith’s First Vision is … speak “out of the abundance of the heart” (Matthew 12:34; Doctrine and Covenants 68:4). Each utterance reveals its true source, even …

The Textual Context of Doctrine and Covenants 121–23

… Used by permission of Greg Olsen, Art Publishing, Inc. Doctrine and Covenants 121–23 is composed of selected portions of a …

Before Jeremiah Was

… for the choosing of people by deity for position and opportunity in mortal life—is a claim that is well … misinformed about, and have disputed the veracity of the doctrine of election. Many people see election as a human … and what the election actually, fully, was. Greater literary context helps partially answer these questions. The …

Conquest of the Heart: Implementing the Law of Consecration in Missouri and Ohio

… of the soul, the sanctifying of the flesh, the purifying and ennobling of the passions. Greater is he who subdues … law of consecration was initially revealed to the Church. Doctrine and Covenants 42: The Law of the Church According to Joseph …

Teaching through Exegesis: Helping Students Ask Questions of the Text

… Good teachers know how to ask questions, and good students become quite capable of answering them. … that help students learn and understand essential doctrine and then find ways to integrate the doctrine into … the New Testament, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, or the Pearl of Great Price, the text is a …

Dealing with Difficulty in Scripture

… Latter-day prophets have implored and continually encouraged members of the Church to make … that pertain to the dispensation of the fulness of times” (Doctrine and Covenants 124:41). Congruent with this, we must always humbly …

Study Bibles

… translation with the strengths of modern translations and from combining the strengths of the study aids in the … to “seek learning, even by study and also by faith” (Doctrine and Covenants 88:118), and I recommend study Bibles as among the …

The Marriage of Adam and Eve

… Marriage between man and woman lies at the heart of Judeo-Christian family … center on (1) the absence of Hebrew terms for oaths and covenants from descriptions of Adam and Eve’s marriage and … he should be the only being whom they should worship” (Doctrine and Covenants 20:19); to not eat of “the tree of the …

"The Tongue Is a Fire": The Symbolic Language of James 3

… in which the scriptures unfold the Lord’s word is through literary qualities that are not on the page to make it more … it “in the same way that one would look at any other book” and treat it “as a product of the human mind.” [1] We can … In fact, the writers of scripture often convey God-given doctrine through literary means. When we are willing to …