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🗓️ 22 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. Jeanette Ericsson, Mosiah Chapter 25 through 28. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, let's go into 27, and here we're going to get this remarkable instruction about what we might call, I think Joe Spencer calls it, the political |
| 0:16.7 | theology of the Book of Mormon, Mosiah is going to establish the rule of law in a sense that there will be religious freedom. |
| 0:26.4 | No persecutions. All will be equal. Each laboring for their own support, |
| 0:32.0 | abounding in the grace of God. |
| 0:34.7 | He's just going to recognize that the flourishment of truth and human flourishing cannot |
| 0:40.0 | happen without establishing religious freedom. That is true around the world. It's |
| 0:45.4 | interesting the data on that how nations that have higher levels of |
| 0:49.4 | religious freedom have higher flourishing in a host of things, including economically thriving. |
| 0:55.6 | There's more entrepreneurship, there's more investment from companies, there's more growth, and |
| 1:02.2 | stability that allows for that growth. You have stronger |
| 1:05.8 | equality between men and women the more religious freedom there is. There's a lot to |
| 1:10.9 | be said for the power of establishing religious freedom and the flourishing of human beings. |
| 1:17.0 | And certainly our church stands for that. There's Joseph Smith saying at the core of it all is the need to honor the rights of all in |
| 1:26.6 | their religious beliefs and convictions. The difficulties in Missouri I think brought |
| 1:31.9 | that out of him that it's not just us we want the right to |
| 1:37.8 | worship for everyone and it was in the Constitution and it didn't seem like he was, wait, we have a right. |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah, you find him in church history talking about, well, this right is for everybody in the Constitution. |
| 1:56.1 | That's interesting, you brought that up. |
| 1:58.1 | We're going to get to the next powerful story, verse 8. |
| 2:01.4 | Now the Sons of Mosiah were numbered among the unbelievers, the Sons of the King, and also one of the sons of Alma was numbered among them, and he was at Wicked and Idolatrous Man, stealing away the hearts of the people, |
| 2:16.4 | causing much dissension. And this is powerful. It helps us understand why protecting the church |
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