Gospel Doctrine Class
Further reading suggestions for each lesson: 2024 Book of Mormon
Ether 6-15 (1 Dec 2024)
(1) YouTube video clip of David A Bednar talk, “The Brother of Jared” from 2011 Christmas Day talk to full-time missionaries; explains the Brother of Jared would not have seen the finger of the Lord until after some or all of the stones were touched and lit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZnI2B9TMoA
(2) The Ninth Annual Book of Mormon Symposium at BYU; The Book of Mormon: Fourth Nephi Through Moroni, From Zion to Destruction The Jaredites–A Case Study in Following the Brethren
This article shows the four-point pattern of destruction that was repeated at least six times in the Jaredite record.
(3) BYU Hawaii Devotionals; Off the Seashore and into the Mountain Waves, by Robert Grow 2009
https://speeches.byuh.edu/devotionals/off-the-seashore-and-into-the-mountain-waves
In this talk, Brother Grow likens the Lord helping prepare the Jaredites to receive the promised land to our striving to be worthy to return home to our Father in Heaven. Great talk.
(4) BYU Speeches, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, by Gene R. Cook of the Seventy; 1981. You may have to copy and paste this URL.
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
Faith is power. Six suggestions to help you exercise your faith in the Lord.
(5) BYU Studies Quarterly; Neuropathology and the Scriptures (go to page 324)
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2852&context=byusq
This article explains how that after Coriantumr had smote off the head of Shiz, that Shiz could have raised up on his hands and then fell. (Ether 15:31)
(6) YouTube video clip of David A Bednar talk, “The Brother of Jared” from 2011 Christmas Day talk to full-time missionaries; explains the Brother of Jared would not have seen the finger of the Lord until after some or all of the stones were touched and lit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZnI2B9TMoA
Mormon 7-9 and Ether 1-5 (17 Nov 2024)
(1) The Ninth Annual Book of Mormon Symposium at BYU; The Book of Mormon: Fourth Nephi Through Moroni, From Zion to Destruction
https://rsc.byu.edu/book/book-mormon-fourth-nephi-through-moroni-zion-destruction
This web site will take you to an online copy of this book with hotlinks to each of the 25 articles in the table of contents.
(2) BYU Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship; Journal of Religious Studies: Were There Two Cumorahs?
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1113&context=jbms
(3) 44th Annual BYU Sydney B. Sperry Symposium:
The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon—A Marvelous Work and a Wonder: “They Are Not Cast Off Forever”: Fulfillment of the Covenant Purposes”
This article examines Book of Mormon references that show how the remnant of Israel will be taught about the Lord’s covenants and his dealings with their forefathers.