S3 E55 Robert Millet on the Happiness and Joy that Are God's Plan for Us (Alma 39-42)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 539 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Join us in the Church History tour of a lifetime by emailing us at thescripturesarereal@gmail.com for details. Also join us for a fantastic cruise where Kerry will lecture, along with Brent Top and others, with music from Jenny Oaks Baker and the Bonners and many others. Get a discount at goanddotravel.com by entering the promo code KERRY.
In this episode Robert Millet and Kerry Muhlestein explore how Alma teaches his son doctrine because he has learned what the core problem is that caused him to sin, and he knows that true doctrine, correctly understood, will change behavior. We explore the importance of understanding doctrine. We talk about what it means to come into the presence of God. We look into what it means to be taken home to that God who gave them life, and the nature of our life after death and before final judgment. They explain how wonderful it is that part of our judgment is according to the desires of our hearts. The have a deep discussion about the nature of godliness and happiness and how uncleanness keeps us from the deep joy that is part of having a godly nature, and how much God wants us to be happy. They tie all of this together to help us understand who Christ and God are and what they are like and thus to understand what our future is like.
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| 0:00.0 | are models, they're analogies, and you can't beat them to death any more than you can beat |
| 0:05.0 | a parable to death without ruining it, you know? |
| 0:07.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:07.5 | The kingdom of heaven is likened to a net. |
| 0:10.5 | Oh, the kingdom of heaven has holes in it. |
| 0:13.5 | No, no, you miss the whole point. |
| 0:20.4 | Hello, and welcome to the Scriptures A Real Podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have helped them become more real to us or that have spoken to us because we believe that helps us apply them to our lives more and draw more power out of them and we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm your host, |
| 0:37.6 | Kerry Mealstein, and I'm so excited about our guest today. This is Elder or Dr. Robert Millett. |
| 0:44.2 | Let me just, I'll tell a little bit about him in a minute, but first of all, just thank you for |
| 0:48.9 | being with us. My, my exciting thrill. Well, let me tell our audience a little bit about you. |
| 0:55.0 | Most of them have probably heard your name or read something of yours. |
| 0:58.5 | But Dr. Millett, I'll let him tell you about his studies and religious studies in Florida and so on. |
| 1:04.7 | But he has been the Department Chair of Ancient Scripture at BYU and then the dean of religious education at BYU. |
| 1:14.6 | He kind of spearheaded and almost invented our interfaith work that we do and has done a lot of interfaith outreach and work. |
| 1:24.6 | He's been a personal. He may not have intended to be a mentor, but he's |
| 1:29.8 | been a mentor to me as I was, he was the dean when I was first hired as a research assistant, |
| 1:36.8 | and when I was an adjunct professor, and I've long admired his work. He's one of the most |
| 1:41.0 | prolific LDS authors that we have. I think is, I don't know, it's probably |
| 1:45.8 | like 570 books or something, I don't know, more than I can count. |
| 1:50.0 | Fantastic books. |
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