Original title: Ignore the Shema, Rewrite the Scripture, and Earn More Gifts

In this episode, Brendon and Skyler discuss the thirty-sixth lesson in the LDS Come, Follow Me sunday school manual. This week (August 28-September 3) is titled “Ye Are the Body of Christ” and covers 1 Corinthians 8-13. 

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!  

Pastor Brendon's Colossians series can be found here. 

Seminary Manual: here, here, here and here 

D&C 76, 46, 131, 132; Moroni 7 

The New Testament Made Easier by David Ridges 

Understanding Paul by Richard Lloyd Anderson 

Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians by Richard Draper and Michael Rhodes  

Joseph Smith: here and here 

“The Challenge to Become” (Dallin Oaks) 

“Celestial Marriage” (Russell Nelson) 

Orson Pratt: JD 1.56, 16.295 

Brigham Young: JD 8.142, 9.267-268, 10.324 

Charles Penrose: JD 21.142-143 

George Q. Cannon: JD 22.265 

David Ridges (of CES/Institute, cited above, in a book being promoted by Deseret Book this current year: 2023) states in his commentary on 1 Cor. 8.4-6: "Before Paul continues to answer their questions about eating meat left over from pagan idol worship, he takes a minute to review the doctrine of plurality of gods with them. We know from D&C 132.19-20, that all who are worthy will become gods over their own worlds, and will send their own spirit offspring to those worlds to go through the same plan of salvation as we are going through here. Therefore, because of the success of the Father's plan, there are many gods in the universe. But there is only one Heavenly Father for us. Thus, Paul reminds these Corinthian saints that there actually are many gods out there...

The Prophet Joseph Smith tells us that the parenthesis in vserse 5, above, teach a marvelous doctrine; namely that there, indeed, are many gods. This reminds us that we can become gods. (By the way, Abraham Isaac and Jacob from our world have already become gods. See D&C 132.27. This would include their wives. See D&C 132.19-20). He taught that the word 'gods' in verse 5 does not refer to idols or, in other words, heathen gods." 

The Mormon Jesus by John Turner 

Early Mormonism and the Magic World View by D. Michael Quinn 

An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins by Grant Palmer 

Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? by Sandra and Jerald Tanner 

Jason Wallace: An Earnest Plea to Charismatics; The Vanishing Lamanites; The Bible vs. Bart Ehrman; The Magical Mormon Scriptures 

Spiritual Gifts by Thomas Schreiner 

Perspectives on Pentecost by Richard Gaffin 

Destroyer of the Gods by Larry Hurtado 

The Trinity: An Introduction by Scott Swain 

The Forgotten Trinity by James White 

Simply Trinity by Matthew Barrett 

1 Corinthians (ZECNT) by Paul Gardner  

Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes by Kenneth Bailey  

St. Paul’s Corinth: Texts and Archaeology by Jerome Murphy-O'Connor 

The Cross Before Constantine by Bruce Longenecker 

Paul’s Two-Age Construction and Apologetics by William Dennison  

“Epistemological Reflections on 1 Corinthians 2.6-16” by Richard B. Gaffin  

The Pauline Eschatology by Geerhardus Vos  

Biblical Words and Their Meaning by Moises Silva 

Exegetical Fallacies by D.A. Carson