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The Seventy's Course in Theology, First Year: Outline History of the Seventy and A Survey of the Books of Holy ScriptureRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)

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The Seventy's Course in Theology, First Year: Outline History of the Seventy and A Survey of the Books of Holy Scripture

Name: The Seventy's Course in Theology, First Year: Outline History of the Seventy and A Survey of the Books of Holy Scripture
Author: Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)

Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)

Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines

4. _The Revelations of Scripture Local:_ The fact that the revelations
of our Bible and other scriptures relate, in the main, to matters
pertaining to "our God," "our earth and its heavens," as set forth in
the Book of Moses, I regard as very important in relation both to the
phraseology and meaning of all the scriptures. For when the scripture
says: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth," etc.;
and "thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the hosts of
them," he has reference not to any absolute "beginning," or absolute
"finishing," but only to the "beginning" and "finishing" as pertaining
to our earth and the order of creation with which it is connected; and
the "hosts" that pertain to our order of existence, not absolutely to
all existences. The revelations we have received of God, let it be
said again, are local, they relate to us and our order of existence;
they may not at all, except in the most casual and general way, refer
to that order of worlds connected with and governed by the Pleiades,
or of Orion, much less to the further removed constellations and their
systems of worlds. We learn from the Pearl of Great Price that when the
Lord gave those revelations to Moses by which the prophet was enabled
to write the creation history of our earth, the local character of
those revelations was expressly stated. (See Book of Moses, chap. i:35,
40; chap ii:1.)



LESSON VII.

SCRIPTURE READING EXERCISE.

_THE MODERN SCRIPTURES--(B) THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE._

  ANALYSIS.                                                  REFERENCES.

  _I. History and Doctrine in the Book of
        Abraham._
        1. The Priesthood of Abraham from                (a) Book of Abraham,
           the Fathers.                                  Chap. i; 1-4; 25-31.
        2. Origin of the Egyptians.                      (b) Chap. i: 21-28.
        3. Domination of Egyptian Religious              (c) Chap. i.
           Ideas; Chaldea in Abraham's
           Times.
        4. Abraham's Knowledge of Astronomy              (d) Chap. iii: 1-18. New
           through Urim and Thummim.                     Witness for God, Vol. I,
                                                         pp. 443-453.
        5. The Pre-Existence of Spirits and              (e) Chap. iii: 16-26.
           the Eternal Existence of Intelligences.
        6. The Purpose in Man's Earth Probation,         (f) Chap. iii: 22-28.
           Choice of the Redeemer.
        7. Creation Story Revealed to Abraham--Plurality (g) Chaps. iv-v.
           of Gods.

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The Seventy's Course in Theology, First Year: Outline History of the Seventy and A Survey of the Books of Holy ScriptureRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)

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The Seventy's Course in Theology, First Year: Outline History of the Seventy and A Survey of the Books of Holy Scripture

Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)

Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines

4. _The Revelations of Scripture Local:_ The fact that the revelations
of our Bible and other scriptures relate, in the main, to matters
pertaining to "our God," "our earth and its heavens," as set forth in
the Book of Moses, I regard as very important in relation both to the
phraseology and meaning of all the scriptures. For when the scripture
says: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth," etc.;
and "thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the hosts of
them," he has reference not to any absolute "beginning," or absolute
"finishing," but only to the "beginning" and "finishing" as pertaining
to our earth and the order of creation with which it is connected; and
the "hosts" that pertain to our order of existence, not absolutely to
all existences. The revelations we have received of God, let it be
said again, are local, they relate to us and our order of existence;
they may not at all, except in the most casual and general way, refer
to that order of worlds connected with and governed by the Pleiades,
or of Orion, much less to the further removed constellations and their
systems of worlds. We learn from the Pearl of Great Price that when the
Lord gave those revelations to Moses by which the prophet was enabled
to write the creation history of our earth, the local character of
those revelations was expressly stated. (See Book of Moses, chap. i:35,
40; chap ii:1.)



LESSON VII.

SCRIPTURE READING EXERCISE.

_THE MODERN SCRIPTURES--(B) THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE._

  ANALYSIS.                                                  REFERENCES.

  _I. History and Doctrine in the Book of
        Abraham._
        1. The Priesthood of Abraham from                (a) Book of Abraham,
           the Fathers.                                  Chap. i; 1-4; 25-31.
        2. Origin of the Egyptians.                      (b) Chap. i: 21-28.
        3. Domination of Egyptian Religious              (c) Chap. i.
           Ideas; Chaldea in Abraham's
           Times.
        4. Abraham's Knowledge of Astronomy              (d) Chap. iii: 1-18. New
           through Urim and Thummim.                     Witness for God, Vol. I,
                                                         pp. 443-453.
        5. The Pre-Existence of Spirits and              (e) Chap. iii: 16-26.
           the Eternal Existence of Intelligences.
        6. The Purpose in Man's Earth Probation,         (f) Chap. iii: 22-28.
           Choice of the Redeemer.
        7. Creation Story Revealed to Abraham--Plurality (g) Chaps. iv-v.
           of Gods.

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The Seventy's Course in Theology, First Year: Outline History of the Seventy and A Survey of the Books of Holy Scripture

The Seventy's Course in Theology, First Year: Outline History of the Seventy and A Survey of the Books of Holy Scripture

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