The Book of Mormon

4 Comments

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   Will the complete content of Talking Scripture Book of Mormon remain available in 2021?
   PLEASE?

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      Author

      Yes, I see us keeping this out there in the future. Glad you like the material!

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   Mike, while researching the basic evolution of Torah, I was struck by the wiki- statement that Pre-exile it was forbidden to write down the theretofore strictly oral law. (So maybe the one book of the law found in the temple was at the beginning of the written law texts?) I assumed for the moment that the oral-only rule was true and it gave me a completely new view of the angel’s words to Nephi about the Bible containing “many plain and precious things” when it ‘proceeded forth from the MOUTH of a Jew’. The angel didn’t talk about plates or scrolls or sticks having plain and precious truths.
   Your comments about Deutoronomist editing came to mind. I can see how the older oral traditions may have contained truths regarding a god (Jehovah) who had revealed Himself in His spirit body to Moses and others and would take a corporal body when He came to ransom His people, etc.
   Thus, ‘from the mouth of a Jew’ may have been more literal than figurative. If the written Torah wasn’t completed until 200 CE as some think, Lehi and Nephi may have ‘oralistic’ as well as old school in their understanding of the Messiah.and His role. Has this oral tradition and “out of the mouth of a Jew” ever seemed connected to you?
   I enjoy the podcast immensely as does my sweetheart. Thanks to both of you for the insights you shared.
   Keven Hart

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   I appreciate your podcasts, but have not felt to comment previously. In you discussion of Ether 6-11 you described additions as length. And I realize that your time is limited. Perhaps you have a more thorough discussion on Satan, but I feel he is really quite basic. BRING SAINTS UNDER MY POWER (STOP SAINTS FROM RETURNING TO GOD). His preference is for us to do evil. But if not, don’t do good. But if not, do good for selfish reasons. Better yet, waste the time you could be doing good to do nothing: addictions to life destroying activity (drugs) or just waste time on social media, video games, mindless entertainment. Even King Benjamin couldn’t name them all. We who listen to your discussions are more or less in the choir and feel we are less likely to be involved in drugs, alcohol and pornography. But watching YouTube videos has kept me from reading the scriptures, etc.