Stand or Fall

Overview of D&C 124 and the related “Come Follow Me” student manual lessons.

This episode gives a quick, slightly unorganized history of the four accounts of the first vision that Joseph Smith had a part in writing or dictating.

Quick history lesson of the Book of Commandments, Doctrine and Covenants, and my thoughts on Section 1. Lecture on Faith lesson notes with historical sources listed: https://www.icloud.com/notes/05WFiMTSw8JMIYH9i5_YPElqA#Lectures_on_Faith_Lessons

This episode is a different from others I have done. It's a tribute to my Grandpa Dean Nelson who recently passed away. I talk about some of the things he taught me about making sense of religion and Mormon Church History when it isn't black and white.

A little history lesson on the Word of Wisdom. Link to the Masters Thesis I use as a reference: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6038&context=etd Article with SLC Temple pictures: https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V29N03_9.pdf

The Godhead and how to make sense of Mosiah 15...

Reading of a paper I wrote in Jan 2019, that was sparked from a discussion in Elders Quorum during ward conference.

Reading of a paper that discusses the current belief in the nature of God of the LDS Church as compared to what I believe the scriptures really teach.

Reading of a paper showing the LDS Church and the kingdom of God are separate and distinct and how the Kingdom could've been set up "without hands" prior to the formal organization of the Church of Christ in 1830.

Link to the paper coming soon.

Reading of a paper that sets forth the chronology of an alternative interpretation of LDS church history and where we are today.

Reading of a paper I wrote about an experience I had the last time I went through the LDS endowment in the temple. Vision - 28 February 2018 Paper

Read through of a critique of a devotional by President Nelson titled, “The Love and Laws of God”.

Reading of a paper I gave in a class discussing the need for a physical gathering of Israel and where it will happen. References: Paper Link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VjxAQcbw4fgaY0fFpeeIhm-WfkfUhCAg Letter to Hyde and Page (dispersed of Judah/outcasts of Israel in Britain): https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-to-orson-hyde-and-john-e-page-14-may-1840/1

My thoughts on the scriptural definition of what sealing really is and thoughts on what Joseph Smith described as, "...the most glorious of all subjects belonging to the everlasting gospel...".

This is a rough listen and I apologize! I through this together without really organizing my thoughts on the paper I gloss over. This episode deals with the beginnings of the practice of familial sealings in the church as practiced from 1844 to 1894. Paper Discussed: The Law of Adoption: One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830-1900 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1625&context=byusqOrson Hyde "Kingdom of God" Diagram https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Question:_What_is_the_history_behind_the_Mormon_practice_called_the_%22Law_of_Adoption%22%3F

A reading of a talk I gave in a sacrament meeting during November 2017 titled, "Recognizing the Spirit".

A reading of a paper I put together that shows how Joseph Smith originally taught there are three different priesthoods. See a link to the paper for references. Three Orders of Priesthood Paper

Today we dig into the Jews looking beyond the mark in Jacob 4 and how that correlates to what happened in Nauvoo in the 1840s.

Read through of a talk on Ordinances and Covenants that I will give on 03/08/2020

The reading of a paper I sent to family and friends about my testimony. References: Plural Marriage Gospel Topics Essay https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/plural-marriage-in-kirtland-and-nauvoo?lang=eng Link to original paper https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bg43tLbJRANst4gBhhKQMyILiW_jnekU/view?usp=sharing

We will cover Jacob 1-4 in a couple of weeks and I just wanted to share my belief in what Jacob is talking about in Jacob 2 in regard to polygamy... References: D&C 132: 1 Jacob 2: 23 1 Kings 3: 14 and JST of same scripture http://www.centerplace.org/hs/iv/iv-1ki.htm#v3.14 1 Kings 11: 4,6 and JST of same scripture Jacob 2: 27-31 1 Nephi 7: 1 Jacob 2: 31 Ezekiel 22 Jacob 2: 34 Jacob 3: 5 D&C 42: 22-24 D&C 49: 15-17 1835 D&C 101 https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/doctrine-and-covenants-1835/259#XD4B4D998-901F-440D-8768-5E54D7CAC8C8

An introduction as to why I am starting this podcast. Episode References: JST Mark 9:44 2 Ne 4: 34 2 Ne 28: 31 D&C 1: 19 Doctrines of Salvation, 3:203-4