Ep 104 – Book of Abraham Spiritual plus Lesley Butterfield
Naked Mormonism Podcast
Bryce Blankenagel
4.7 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2018
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, we dive into the actual content of the Book of Abraham in our continued examination of the history of the book. We read extracts of each chapter with a bit of study guide along the way. We cover Abraham’s story arc in the book, the deeper doctrines and teachings which come from the Book, and we examine some of the cultural milieu from whence the Book of Abraham arose. We cover Joseph’s rewriting of the Genesis creation narrative, racism within the books of Mormon canon, and the Hebrew root of ‘Kolob’. What would it take to get rid of some of these pieces of doctrine, canon, and theology in the modern Church? After that we’re joined by Lesley Butterfield of Unrighteous Dominion to discuss abuse in its many manifestations within the culture of the LDS Church.
Links:
Book of Abraham Study Guide
https://www.lds.org/manual/the-pearl-of-great-price-student-manual/the-book-of-abraham?lang=eng
Book of Abraham and Facsimiles
http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/book-of-abraham-and-facsimiles-1-march-16-may-1842/11
Egyptian Human Sacrifice
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/humansac.htm
Dynastic timeline of Egypt
http://www.touregypt.net/hdyn1.htm
Mark of Cain
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/366381-what-is-the-mark-of-cain-in-the-book-of-mormon
Book of Moses
http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/old-testament-revision-1/2#full-transcript
Bible Chronology of Abraham
http://biblehub.com/timeline/
Kolob as Sirius
https://bycommonconsent.com/2006/11/18/kolob-as-sirius/
Improvement Era 1913 Kolob as Sirius
https://archive.org/stream/improvementera1605unse/improvementera1605unse_djvu.txt
‘Kolob’ as ‘Man-whore’ “Ain’t Nothing but a Hound Dog”
http://www.academia.edu/1167730/Aint_Nothing_But_a_Hound_Dog_The_meaning_of_the_noun_klb_in_Northwest_Semitic_Languages_in_light_of_BT_Rosh_Hashannah_4a
The Vanity of Arts and Sciences by Agrippa
https://archive.org/details/vanityartsandsc00unkngoog
Astronomy and the Book of Abraham
http://www.ldsgospeldoctrine.net/ddd/ddd-ot02.pdf
First and Second Estate doctrine
http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Second_Estate
Lesley Butterfield and Unrighteous Dominion
https://www.unrighteousdominion.org/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're going to talk about Kolob. |
| 0:02.0 | And why is Kolob an interesting subject? |
| 0:06.0 | Because we don't, you take it away. |
| 0:09.0 | I think that the topic of Kolob has always been something that's super interesting, |
| 0:15.0 | but especially in the last few years the Book of Mormon musical came out, |
| 0:18.0 | and there's a line in that show that says, |
| 0:20.0 | I believe that God lives on a planet called Kolop. |
| 0:24.5 | So we look insane. |
| 0:26.9 | You know? |
| 0:27.4 | Right. |
| 0:28.1 | So what is Kolob? |
| 0:29.4 | And do Mormons actually believe that God lives there? |
| 0:33.0 | I am Ryan McKnight. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm Kara Santa Maria. |
| 0:36.2 | I am Christopher Smith. Hi, I'm Kara Santa Maria. I am Christopher Smith. |
| 0:37.7 | Hi, I'm Andrew Torres. |
| 0:39.2 | This is Naked Mormonism. |
| 0:42.2 | The Serial Mormon History Podcast. The Book of Abraham may be an obscure piece of Mormon canon, but it holds some pieces of doctrine and theology which set Mormonism apart from other Protestant sects of Christianity. |
| 1:08.7 | It's been interesting. The Book of Abraham is a tough subject |
| 1:12.1 | to study from the chapel attenders perspective without getting lost down the rabbit hole of apologetics. |
| 1:17.4 | There aren't any general conference talks that I could find about it. There are plenty of |
| 1:21.4 | apologists talking and writing and making videos about the book of Abraham, but very little by |
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