Episode 73: Living the Law of Consecration (Steven Harper)

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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How should we understand and live the law of consecration today? In this episode, Professor Steven Harper, a professor of Church history and doctrine, explains his research on the law of consecration. He articulates the revealed principles of the doctrine (rather than the “folk doctrine” surrounding it)—and helps listeners understand why the law of consecration is the ultimate expression of discipleship for Latter-day Saints.

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0:00.0	How they're my Why Religion Friends, Professor Anthony Sweat here from B.O.U. Church History
0:04.2	and Doctrine.
0:05.2	Welcome to another edifying and enlightening episode of the Why Religion Podcast.
0:09.9	As you can see by today's title of the show, it centers on better understanding the law
0:14.8	of consecration.
0:16.5	For Latter-day Saints, this is a pinnacle covenant that we commit to obey as part of our sacred
0:21.8	temple covenants with God.
0:24.0	The trouble is that for such a crucial covenant, it is often misunderstood, even by the
0:29.8	faithful who covenant to live it.
0:32.5	A number of years ago, I did a baseline pre-class quiz with over 700 B.O.U. students in a Doctrine
0:38.9	and Covenants class, just to check their understanding on various concepts.
0:43.8	One of the questions dealt with their understanding of the law of consecration.
0:48.3	This is how it read.
0:50.7	The law of consecration A is not practiced by the church today.
0:55.5	B is not practiced in the church today, but will be brought back in the millennium.
1:00.3	C is practiced in part in the church today through ties and offerings, but not in full.
1:06.1	Or D is practiced in full in the church today.
1:10.1	Which option do you think the students selected most?
1:12.9	Well, half of the students selected option C that said that consecration is only partly
1:19.9	practiced in the church through ties and offerings, but not in full.
1:24.3	As though tithing is somehow a lesser law of Moses' interim and were waiting for future
1:29.9	full consecration to come about.
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