Abide #8.2: Doctrine and Covenants 93
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🗓️ 19 August 2021
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We will be discussing each week’s block of reading from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ “Come, Follow Me” curriculum. We aren’t here to present a lesson, but rather to hit on a few key themes from the scripture block that we believe will help fulfill the Maxwell Institute’s mission to inspire and fortify Latter-day Saints in their testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and engage the world of religious ideas.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Abide, a Maxwell Institute podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | The Joseph Smith paper says that few contemporary sources shed light on the background of Doctrine and Covenant, Section 93. |
| 0:10.9 | Newell K. Whitney summarized the revelation this way. |
| 0:13.8 | A revelation to Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigden, Frederick G. Williams, and Newell K. Whitney, |
| 0:19.0 | a chastisement, and also relative to the father and son, |
| 0:23.3 | 6 May, 1833. While Whitney was clearly focused on the reprimand they received from the Lord in |
| 0:29.5 | relation to their families, the majority of the revelation was relative to the father and son. |
| 0:35.2 | The text of the revelation appears to be closely related to the first chapter of the gospel according to John, but was likely to the Father and Son. The text of the Revelation appears to be closely related to the first |
| 0:38.8 | chapter of the Gospel according to John, but was likely not the direct result of Joseph Smith's |
| 0:43.8 | work revising the New Testament, the Joseph Smith translation, since the revision on that portion |
| 0:48.8 | had been completed some three months earlier in February. But, historian Steve Harper writes in making sense of the |
| 0:55.4 | Doctrine of Covenants, historical records may not tell us anything about why Doctrine and Covenants |
| 1:01.0 | 93 was received. But the Lord tells us why he gave the revelation in verse 19. I give unto you these |
| 1:07.9 | sayings that you may understand and know how to worship, and know what you worship, |
| 1:12.9 | that you may come unto the Father in my name, and in due time receive of His fullness. |
| 1:18.6 | The revelation directly challenges several prevailing Christian beliefs of the time, including doctrines |
| 1:24.1 | regarding the nature of Jesus Christ, especially as humanity and divinity, |
| 1:28.3 | that most Christians believed had been settled by the Council of Calcedon in 451 CE. |
| 1:34.3 | The Revelation also addressed humankind's relationship with God. |
| 1:38.3 | We don't know what conversations Joseph and the early saints had about these early Christian creeds. |
| 1:43.3 | We do know that Sidney Rigdon had been a follower of Alexander Campbell, |
| 1:48.1 | a religious movement that denied that a belief in traditional Christian creeds were necessary, |
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