by Dan Wees | Apr 29, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Zeniff’s record covers seventy-eight years of history, flashing back to about 200 B.C. to the beginning of the migration and the resettlement of Lehi-Nephi. The first part [Mosiah] (chaps. 9-10) is written by Zeniff in first person, after which Mormon apparently...
by Dan Wees | Apr 29, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“After paying a tribute of wine to the Lamanite soldiers stationed to guard the city of Nephi, Limhi’s people – and Ammon – escape with their flocks through a secret passage in the city’s wall. The Lamanite army pursues them for two days until ‘they could...
by Dan Wees | Apr 29, 2018 | Miscellaneous
MATTHEW states that Mary and Joseph fled to Egypt, while LUKE claims they returned to Nazareth. “When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was...
by Dan Wees | Apr 29, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The late [nineteen] sixties found the Brigham Young University the focal point of militant protests. Sports events provided the context for protests, boycotts, disrupted games, mass demonstrations, and ‘riots.’ At one point the conflict among schools within the...
by Dan Wees | Apr 29, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[T]he Quorum upheld a decision by John Widtsoe denying a temple recommend to a ‘sister having one thirty-second of negro blood in her veins’” Lester E. Bush, Jr., Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought – “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An...
by Dan Wees | Apr 28, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Both Matthew and Luke mention Jesus was born in the time of Herod, but Luke then (2:2) contradicts this and says that they went to perform the census when Quirinius was governor. The census under Quirinius took place in 6 AD after Herod had died in 4 AD. “Now when...
