In recent years, a group of LDS historians has revived the old idea that Joseph Smith produced the Book of Mormon by reading words that appeared on a stone in the hat (SITH). SITH was described in the 1834 book Mormonism Unvailed, a book that Joseph Smith denounced. In response, on multiple occasions Joseph and […]
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My latest study project has been to try and study things that the scriptures say or infer happened in the pre-mortal realm. Here’s a look at what you can find in the scriptures when you study something topically and organize your notes. I was surprised at some of the things I learned when I had […]
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This week we have added Dr. Avraham Gileadi’s translation of Isaiah. During his Ph.D. program, Dr. Gileadi translated the text of Isaiah into modern English, with annotations from the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah, 1Qsa, and the Greek Septuagint Version, LXX, and published it with analyses of Isaiah’s literary patterns uncovered during a decade of […]
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What happened to Jesus between the ages of 12-30? The Bible is silent on this time frame, but other sources record possible travels of Christ. What do we know from traditions, including the most persistent one that Jesus was in Ancient Britain. We will also look at other traditions of Jesus and what happened to […]
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This week we have released a new feature for custom markup on collection notes. People love to mark up their scriptures and now with this feature, you can get a blank slate every time you want to study a topic so you can do something unique for that topic without overwriting your regular verse markup. […]
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When we think about the life of Christ, do we put him into a New Testament textual “box” such that he couldn’t have done anything other than what we read about? We know John said if all the things Jesus did were written it would fill the books of the world. Small writings in the […]
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After completing the video on the 17 missions of the Holy Ghost, I wanted to continue and see what missions and roles Jesus Christ has in scripture. I decided to break them up into 3 categories. Pre-mortal, mortal, and post-mortal roles. By my simple research, I count 32 different missions he has to play in […]
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In Luke 17:6, the Lord says, “If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.” In Matthew 17:20, the author records Jesus as saying, “If ye have faith […]
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Recently I posted a video on 17 Missions of the Holy Ghost. I am presently working on missions of Jesus Christ, and after that missions of our Heavenly Father. This morning I thought I would just share an example of what to do when you have a question about a scripture. The text is from […]
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Are you a teacher? Do you want a slick way to reference both your notes and the scriptures while you’re teaching your class? With Scripture Notes you can teach from a laptop, tablet, mobile device, or print out your lesson. Here’s how. Watch it in action (visit article page): Read it: 1) Create and save […]
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