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33. CFM: Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, and John 20-21
Original title: Resurrection
In this episode, Brendon and Skyler discuss the twenty-seventh lesson in the LDS Come, Follow Me sunday school manual. This week (June 25-July 2) is titled "He Is Risen" and covers Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, and John 20-21.
We invite you to worship with us on any Sunday - either at First Baptist Church of Provo or Christ Presbyterian Church in Magna. We welcome visitors!
Seminary: here, here, and here
Mosiah 11, 16, Alma 11
D&C 19, 29, 45, 63, 76. 77, 88, 93, 101, 132; Moses 3
"The Resurrection of Jesus Christ" (D. Todd Christofferson)
"The Only True God and Jesus Christ Whom He Hath Sent" (Holland)
"What Has Our Savior Done for Us?" (Dallin Oaks)
"Christ Is Risen; Faith in Him Will Move Mountains" (Russell Nelson)
True To the Faith; Gospel Principles; The Lectures on Faith
Statements of the LDS First Presidency (compiled by Gary Bergera);
- "The Lord's Resurrection completed the process of the Atonement that included His sinless life, His suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane, and His death on the cross. The Resurrection assured immortality for all, and the blessed Atonement provided a pathway to exaltation for those who will adhere to His gospel principles." (Church News, Apr. 3, 1993)
- "When we speak of Jesus being resurrected, we mean that His premortal spirit, which animated His mortal body from His birth in the manger until He died on the cross, reentered that body; and the two, His spirit body and His physical body, inseparably welded together, arose from the tomb an immortal soul. Our belief is, and we so testify, that Jesus not only conquered death for Himself and brought forth His own glorious resurrected body, but that in so doing He also brought about a universal resurrection. This was the end and purpose of the mission for which He was set apart and ordained in the great council in heaven, when He was chosen to be our Savior and Redeemer." (Marion G. Romney, "First Presidency Message", Ensign, Apr. 1985)
- "In His birth, His ministry and glorious Resurrection, and His ascension into heaven, He symbolized the story of our lives. He taught us that those mortal bodies of ours shall put on immortality, and that we shall rise as He rose, to inherit the glory of everlasting life. This was the purpose for which He came to earth." (Deseret News, Dec. 17, 1932)
- "The certainty of the persistence of man's spirit when the body has finished its earthly mission and the progress of the 'better part' in worlds eternal, with the fond assurance of an actual resurrection and a reunion of family associations ordered under divine laws and covenants, robs death of its terrors and sheds light upon the darkness of sorrow or doubt." (Deseret News, Dec. 16, 1916)
The Words of Joseph Smith (also here, and here)
Jesus The Christ by James Talmage
"The Blessing of Scripture" (D. Todd Christofferson); wherein he states: "...faith in the Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which animates this plan of happiness..."
A Rational Theology by John Widtsoe
Mormon Doctrine by Bruce R. McConkie
Doctrines of Salvation by Joseph Fielding Smith
Brigham Young: JD 1.118, 9.149, 15.137
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory Prince; in a section dealing with McKay's gift for teaching, he provides an example: "With his spirituality came a profound appreciation of the role of earthly life as but one step in the ongoing process. Death is not to be feared, for it is the transition from one step to the next. One general authority stated, 'I talked to President McKay one time in one my question sessions, and I asked him: What is it like to die? He said, 'Oh, that's easy! It's like going from this room to that room.'" He used different, yet equally simple symbolism to explain resurrection to one of his sons...'I don't understand this resurrection-business.' So his father would plan to go to the mountains so he could explain it to him. He would go in the early spring when the flowers were just coming up, and he would say 'We were here in the fall and those flowers were all dead. It's springtime and they are all back.' That is how he would explain the resurrection to his little children and his grandchildren."
The Mormon Jesus by John Turner
"This Is My Doctrine": The Development of Mormon Theology by Charles Harrell: "The only contemporary recorded teaching of the Prophet on the subject was that resurrected children would be enthroned with their childhood stature throughout all eternity...Mormon parents may have found it disconcerting that their children would never grow, possibly explaining why Joseph reportedly later stated that they could raise their children in the hereafter...According to Wilford Woodruff, Brigham Young 'herd Joseph Smith say that children would not Grow after death & at another time that they would grow[,] & he hardly knew how to reconcile it.' Wilford Woodruff's Journal, 1833-1898 6:363" (p. 470)
Temples Made With Hands? (Jason Wallace)
The God of Brigham Young (Jason Wallace)
Resources:
God Dwells Among Us: Expanding Eden to the Ends of the Earth; God Dwells Among Us: A Biblical Theology of the Temple by G.K. Beale
The Temple and the Church's Mission by G.K. Beale
The Doctrine of the Word of God by John Frame
Matthew: The Expositor's Bible Commentary; The Gospel According to John (PNTC) by D. A. Carson
Was the Burning in Your Bosom From God? (Jason Wallace)
Christian Apologetics by Cornelius Van Til
Christianity and Liberalism; The Person of Jesus by J. Gresham Machen
Core Christianity; Christless Christianity by Michael Horton
WHI: here, here, and here
Unmasking the Pagan Christ by Stanley Porter and Stephen Bedard
The Bible v. Bart Ehrman (Jason Wallace)
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses by Richard Bauckham
The Historical Jesus of the Gospels by Craig Keener
The Jesus Legend by Paul Rhodes Eddy and Gregory Boyd
Jesus and the Logic of History by Paul Barnett
Who Moved the Stone? by Frank Morison
The Bedrock of Christianity by Justin Bass
The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus by Gary Habermas and Michael Licona; The Resurrection of Jesus by Michael Licona
Raised on the Third Day: Defending the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus by David W. Beck and Michael Licona
The Resurrection of the Son of God by N.T. Wright
Resurrection and Redemption by Richard Gaffin
"Resurrection, Proof, and Presuppositionalism: Acts 17:30-31" by Lane Tipton, found in Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed Aopologetics, edited by K. Scott Oliphant and Lane Tipton
Union with the Resurrected Christ by G.K. Beale
The Hope of Israel: The Resurrection of Christ in the Acts of the Apostles by Brandon Crowe
Note: One point that I wish had been emphasized more was how the Christology links with Resurrection. Mormonism has no distinction between God(s) and man, and thus - the idea that what God assumed in his humanity is essential and necessary for the redemption of humanity is not an obvious equation in the Mormon worldview. This is then shown in how they extend the doctrine of resurrection to all animal and plant life, and even the earth.
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By Brendon Scoggin and Skyler HamiltonOriginal title: Resurrection
In this episode, Brendon and Skyler discuss the twenty-seventh lesson in the LDS Come, Follow Me sunday school manual. This week (June 25-July 2) is titled "He Is Risen" and covers Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, and John 20-21.
We invite you to worship with us on any Sunday - either at First Baptist Church of Provo or Christ Presbyterian Church in Magna. We welcome visitors!
Seminary: here, here, and here
Mosiah 11, 16, Alma 11
D&C 19, 29, 45, 63, 76. 77, 88, 93, 101, 132; Moses 3
"The Resurrection of Jesus Christ" (D. Todd Christofferson)
"The Only True God and Jesus Christ Whom He Hath Sent" (Holland)
"What Has Our Savior Done for Us?" (Dallin Oaks)
"Christ Is Risen; Faith in Him Will Move Mountains" (Russell Nelson)
True To the Faith; Gospel Principles; The Lectures on Faith
Statements of the LDS First Presidency (compiled by Gary Bergera);
- "The Lord's Resurrection completed the process of the Atonement that included His sinless life, His suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane, and His death on the cross. The Resurrection assured immortality for all, and the blessed Atonement provided a pathway to exaltation for those who will adhere to His gospel principles." (Church News, Apr. 3, 1993)
- "When we speak of Jesus being resurrected, we mean that His premortal spirit, which animated His mortal body from His birth in the manger until He died on the cross, reentered that body; and the two, His spirit body and His physical body, inseparably welded together, arose from the tomb an immortal soul. Our belief is, and we so testify, that Jesus not only conquered death for Himself and brought forth His own glorious resurrected body, but that in so doing He also brought about a universal resurrection. This was the end and purpose of the mission for which He was set apart and ordained in the great council in heaven, when He was chosen to be our Savior and Redeemer." (Marion G. Romney, "First Presidency Message", Ensign, Apr. 1985)
- "In His birth, His ministry and glorious Resurrection, and His ascension into heaven, He symbolized the story of our lives. He taught us that those mortal bodies of ours shall put on immortality, and that we shall rise as He rose, to inherit the glory of everlasting life. This was the purpose for which He came to earth." (Deseret News, Dec. 17, 1932)
- "The certainty of the persistence of man's spirit when the body has finished its earthly mission and the progress of the 'better part' in worlds eternal, with the fond assurance of an actual resurrection and a reunion of family associations ordered under divine laws and covenants, robs death of its terrors and sheds light upon the darkness of sorrow or doubt." (Deseret News, Dec. 16, 1916)
The Words of Joseph Smith (also here, and here)
Jesus The Christ by James Talmage
"The Blessing of Scripture" (D. Todd Christofferson); wherein he states: "...faith in the Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which animates this plan of happiness..."
A Rational Theology by John Widtsoe
Mormon Doctrine by Bruce R. McConkie
Doctrines of Salvation by Joseph Fielding Smith
Brigham Young: JD 1.118, 9.149, 15.137
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory Prince; in a section dealing with McKay's gift for teaching, he provides an example: "With his spirituality came a profound appreciation of the role of earthly life as but one step in the ongoing process. Death is not to be feared, for it is the transition from one step to the next. One general authority stated, 'I talked to President McKay one time in one my question sessions, and I asked him: What is it like to die? He said, 'Oh, that's easy! It's like going from this room to that room.'" He used different, yet equally simple symbolism to explain resurrection to one of his sons...'I don't understand this resurrection-business.' So his father would plan to go to the mountains so he could explain it to him. He would go in the early spring when the flowers were just coming up, and he would say 'We were here in the fall and those flowers were all dead. It's springtime and they are all back.' That is how he would explain the resurrection to his little children and his grandchildren."
The Mormon Jesus by John Turner
"This Is My Doctrine": The Development of Mormon Theology by Charles Harrell: "The only contemporary recorded teaching of the Prophet on the subject was that resurrected children would be enthroned with their childhood stature throughout all eternity...Mormon parents may have found it disconcerting that their children would never grow, possibly explaining why Joseph reportedly later stated that they could raise their children in the hereafter...According to Wilford Woodruff, Brigham Young 'herd Joseph Smith say that children would not Grow after death & at another time that they would grow[,] & he hardly knew how to reconcile it.' Wilford Woodruff's Journal, 1833-1898 6:363" (p. 470)
Temples Made With Hands? (Jason Wallace)
The God of Brigham Young (Jason Wallace)
Resources:
God Dwells Among Us: Expanding Eden to the Ends of the Earth; God Dwells Among Us: A Biblical Theology of the Temple by G.K. Beale
The Temple and the Church's Mission by G.K. Beale
The Doctrine of the Word of God by John Frame
Matthew: The Expositor's Bible Commentary; The Gospel According to John (PNTC) by D. A. Carson
Was the Burning in Your Bosom From God? (Jason Wallace)
Christian Apologetics by Cornelius Van Til
Christianity and Liberalism; The Person of Jesus by J. Gresham Machen
Core Christianity; Christless Christianity by Michael Horton
WHI: here, here, and here
Unmasking the Pagan Christ by Stanley Porter and Stephen Bedard
The Bible v. Bart Ehrman (Jason Wallace)
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses by Richard Bauckham
The Historical Jesus of the Gospels by Craig Keener
The Jesus Legend by Paul Rhodes Eddy and Gregory Boyd
Jesus and the Logic of History by Paul Barnett
Who Moved the Stone? by Frank Morison
The Bedrock of Christianity by Justin Bass
The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus by Gary Habermas and Michael Licona; The Resurrection of Jesus by Michael Licona
Raised on the Third Day: Defending the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus by David W. Beck and Michael Licona
The Resurrection of the Son of God by N.T. Wright
Resurrection and Redemption by Richard Gaffin
"Resurrection, Proof, and Presuppositionalism: Acts 17:30-31" by Lane Tipton, found in Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed Aopologetics, edited by K. Scott Oliphant and Lane Tipton
Union with the Resurrected Christ by G.K. Beale
The Hope of Israel: The Resurrection of Christ in the Acts of the Apostles by Brandon Crowe
Note: One point that I wish had been emphasized more was how the Christology links with Resurrection. Mormonism has no distinction between God(s) and man, and thus - the idea that what God assumed in his humanity is essential and necessary for the redemption of humanity is not an obvious equation in the Mormon worldview. This is then shown in how they extend the doctrine of resurrection to all animal and plant life, and even the earth.