Episode 24: Joseph Smith’s Growing Understanding of the Eternal Family (Michael Goodman & Devan Jensen)

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🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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We can sometimes think that Joseph Smith’s understanding of key Restoration doctrines came fully formed from the start. But the reality is that many concepts were revealed more slowly, here a little and there a little. Beginning with the tragic death of Joseph’s brother Alvin up through temple ordinances in Nauvoo, BYU religion’s Michael Goodman and Devan Jensen discuss how the Prophet grew in his understanding of doctrines related to the eternal family, and how God works with all of us line upon line.

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0:00.0	Hey there, podcast friends, Professor Anthony Sweat here. Welcome to another fabulous episode of the Why Religion Podcast where we bring in one place some of the recent publications from the religion faculty at BYU.
0:12.0	I want to start out today's podcast episode by from the religion faculty at BYU.
0:12.7	I want to start out today's podcast episode
0:14.9	by asking you a simple question that, in my opinion,
0:17.7	has broad implications.
0:19.9	Here's the question.
0:21.7	Although Joseph Smith learned many things in the first vision
0:25.2	when he was 14, what did he not learn about?
0:29.8	In other words, if you or I bumped into a 15 or 16 year old
0:33.1	Joseph Smith, what would he likely not understand
0:37.2	that would later become fundamental and foundational
0:39.9	to the church.
0:45.2	We sometimes can be tempted to think that Joseph's understanding of restoration doctrines came
0:49.7	fully formed right out of the grove, or at least by 1830 anyway when the church was
0:55.0	organized but the reality is that many concepts were revealed more slowly
0:59.4	line upon line concepts such as the organization and role of the priesthood, the location and purpose of
1:06.0	the city of Zion, for example, the law of consecration, and even the nature of God developed over many years through many questions and many revelations.
1:17.0	In an 1855 talk, Brigham Young said this, quote,
1:21.0	The Lord can't reveal to you and I what we can't understand.
1:25.3	For example, when Joseph first received revelation, the Lord could not tell him what he was going
1:29.9	to do.
1:30.9	He didn't tell him he was going to call him to be a prophet, seer, revelator, high priest,
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