Reading the BoM Despite Her Stake President . . .

That’s a really cool idea.

This isn’t exactly the same, but along similar lines: http://www.mormonsundayschool.org/

Jared Anderson is building up this project. He is going to follow the lesson manuals for Sunday School a couple weeks in advance and produce podcasts on the same scriptures, but from a more advanced and nuanced perspective. He’s a PhD student in Religious Studies specializing in the New Testament (under Bart Ehrman). I think his project is going to be really fascinating — bringing in the academic world of textual criticism, history and other tools.

For example in Omni this morning I noted two completely trinitarian verses and the fact that in the BoM individuals are always leaving corrupt organizations that have lost their way.

There are a few more, but the more trinitarian verses have in the main been altered.

A good idea otherwise Bob!

Are you saying that elsewhere the more trinitarian verses have been altered to be less trinitarian?

I was reading Mosiah Ch 1 this morning, and it’s interesting how many people in authority in the BoM are servant leaders who voluntarily step away from power in the interests of the larger community. Probably evidence right there that it’s fiction, because you rarely see that in the real world. I mean, think of King Benjamin voluntarily turning his kingship (whatever the term) to Mosiah. Historically fathers have murdered their sons rather than give up power like that, especially warrior kings like Benjamin. There’s a great paradigm there, if only people could be convinced to follow it.

For example, why don’t feeble LDS prophets step aside like King Benjamin did? Give your farewell address and then move off into the sunset instead of surrounding yourself with handlers running the signature machine.