Book of Abraham research is hard to do. But for me it also became hard not to do.
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In his new book, Let’s Talk About the Book of Abraham, Dr. Kerry Muhlestein addresses questions surrounding the origin of the Book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price and how Joseph Smith may have translated it.
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Want your child to get the most out of this year’s “Come, Follow Me” study? Here are some resources that might help.
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Joseph Fielding Smith changed John Bytheway's life in five words when he said, "We read scriptures too fast." Check out these five "sermons in a sentence" from the scriptures that could change your life, too!
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We know from the scriptures that there were people who did not "taste of death" or who were "taken up by the spirit." But what does it really mean to be translated?
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The end of the third chapter is the most quoted part of the Book of Abraham. In these few verses, Abraham is told about the preexistence. More than half of all citations of the Book of Abraham in the general conferences of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a third of all citations of the Book of Abraham in the Church’s manuals are from the Book of Abraham’s discussion of the preexistence. For Later-day Saints, this is the most important part of the book.
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The Creation
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Author’s Note: This lesson will not follow precisely the format of the lesson in the manual for Gospel Doctrine. I want to provide some insights and background to the excellent material contained in the Church’s publication. Please do not teach this lesson at the expense of that one. The manual provided by the Church is your main and most important non-scriptural resource. This lesson is clearly of lesser value and inspiration, but I hope it will help you in understanding what happened to Israel in the wilderness and at Mount Sinai.
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Elder Holland quoted George Q. Cannon as he taught a great lesson on the character of God:
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The pattern followed in Moses 5 is the pattern still followed by Lucifer and his fallen angels. Whenever truth is taught or righteousness appears, Lucifer will make an effort to counteract the effects of such activity. After Adam and Eve were taught the fundamentals of the Atonement, they "blessed the name of God, and they made all things known unto their sons and their daughters" (Moses 5:12).
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At least three commandments were given to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. We mentioned them last week. They were to:
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We came here with divine potential, and in many cases—perhaps all cases—divine power.
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Introduction
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Kolob. We sing about it in one of our favorite hymns. We’ve named canyons and mountains and wards and stakes after it. But do we really know what Kolob is and what it’s like?
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The Church has released new coloring books for the Pearl of Great Price and Book of Mormon. The Church is providing these coloring books under the series Scripture Stories Coloring Books in order to encourage scripture study among family and children and help make learning about scripture stories fun.
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Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery lowered one of the temple curtains that provided a private place to pray among the pulpits in the Kirtland Temple.
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Two and a half weeks before terrorist attacks on Paris, the First Presidency issued a letter, read over Sacrament meeting pulpits, encouraging Latter-day Saints to continue contributing to refugee relief.
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In August, the young men of the Meridian North Idaho Stake participated in a rare and unique opportunity. They built a full-scale replica of the Tabernacle of Moses, then camped around it for the next three days as they learned about the significance of the Tabernacle as it relates to the atonement of Jesus Christ and the Aaronic priesthood. Check it out!
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You may also be interested in "7 Things All Mormons Should Know About the King James Bible."
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MR says: Have you ever wondered what scriptures have been shared the most over the pulpit in general conference? Do you think you can guess the ten on this list?
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Here’s just the beginning of what you can learn from the books you’ll study in seminary in the coming year.
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This week, the Church released a new essay on the historicity and translation of the Book of Abraham. While there is much that we don’t know about this ancient book of scripture, based on the history, there are some things we can deduce from clues in the text itself, contemporary papyri, and eyewitnesses of the papyri:
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AUTHOR’S NOTE: This lesson will not follow precisely the format of the lesson in the manual for Gospel Doctrine. I want to provide some insights and background to the excellent material contained in the Church’s publication. Please do not teach this lesson at the expense of that one. The manual provided by the Church is your main and most important non-scriptural resource. This lesson is clearly of lesser value and inspiration, but I hope it will help you in understanding what happened to Israel in the wilderness and at Mount Sinai.
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