Scripture equity and lesson rotation -- four year cycle

[Sleeping in EQ]

Why would the Olmecs have been worried about 19-century protestant theology?

It was all the correlation department would let them discuss. They weren't about to get into how 2nd and 3rd Isaiah, written after the captivity in Babylon, were quoted before they were even written, and with the exact pharasing of Jacobean English, no less.

[Solon]

Teaching the lessons out of the primary manual for D&C/Church history this year, I've come to an opinion on how we do the four year cycle of NT, OT, BoM, D&C. I don't think it's right. It's out of balance to give each of these exact 1/4th treatment in our seminary program, gospel doctrine classes, etc. Sad that we spend only 1/4th of our lesson time on the NT and 1/8th on the gospels. We are becoming more in line with mainstream Christianity (not a bad thing), but this is one area we could really use improvement.




This is the lesson that prompted this post. Teaching primary kids about Zion's Camp. Here are two different stories the lesson goes over. I'm quite certain you could open up to any page in the NT or BoM and find something more meaningful, inspiring, and testimony building. I find a lot of these little stories from the the manual for church history a) forced and b) many times counterproductive.

Arnie Garr wrote a nice little piece on Sylvester Smith. Somehow, the lesson-accounts seem to always manage to leave out the ending, even though it would be a nice addition to the lesson:
https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/joseph-...an-forgiveness

The BOM is an interesting study on early 19th-century protestant theology. But we certainly don't discuss it that way.

LOL. Well done.

[Maximus]

It was all the correlation department would let them discuss. They weren't about to get into how 2nd and 3rd Isaiah, written after the captivity in Babylon, were quoted before they were even written, and with the exact pharasing of Jacobean English, no less.

Which chapters in the BofM do you refer to?

[Indy Coug]

Which chapters in the BofM do you refer to?

http://www.fairlds.org/authors/schin...book-of-mormon