Original title: The War in Heaven; Agency as theological "Liberal-tarianism"

In this episode, Brendon and Skyler discuss the fiftieth lesson in the LDS Come, Follow Me sunday school manual. This week (December 11-17) is titled “They Overcame...,by the Blood of the Lamb” and covers Revelation 6-14. 

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 and/or here. 

Seminary Manual: here, here, here and here 

JSH 1.29-54; JST Revelation; Moses 4; Abraham 3; 2 Ne 2; Alma 13, 32 

D&C 4.4; 6.3; 7; 13; 19; 22; 29; 33.7; 45; 76; 77; 82; 84; 86; 87; 88; 93; 97; 101; 110; 115; 121; 128; 131; 132; 133  

Gospel Principles; Jesus Christ Chosen as Savior 

“My Turn on Earth” (Carol Lynn Pearson) 

Joseph Smith: here and here 

The Words of Joseph Smith edited by Andrew Ehat and Lyndon Cook 

“Beware of Pride”; The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner; “Our Immediate Responsibility”; “Life Is Eternal” (Ezra Taft Benson) - also Oct. 1961 CR 

“A Time of Decision” (Harold B. Lee) 

“The Times in Which We Live”; “War and Peace” (Gordon Hinckley) 

“The Canker of Contention” (Russell Nelson) 

“Prayer and Promptings” (Boyd Packer) 

“The Enemy Within” (James Faust) 

“If Ye Are Prepared Ye Shall Not Fear” (L. Tom Perry) 

“Preparing for the Lord’s Return” (D. Todd Christofferson) 

“Winning the War Against Evil” (James J. Hamula) 

October 2010 General Conference 

“Race Problems – As They Affect the Church” (Mark E. Petersen) (or here) 

The Seer by Orson Pratt 

Mediation and the Atonement by John Taylor 

The Articles of Faith; Jesus the Christ by James Talmage 

A Rational Theology by John Widtsoe 

Elias: An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. Whitney 

The Truth, the Way, and the Life by B.H. Roberts 

The Way to Perfection by Joseph Fielding Smith 

The Great and Abominable Church of the Devil; Many Are Called but Few Are Chosen by H. Verlan Andersen 

Approaching Zion by Hugh Nibley 

Gospel Trilogy; Prophecy and Modern Times by Cleon Skousen 

Brigham Young: JD 3.256; 3.369; 9.333; 13.282; 14. 93-94, 280-281 

John Taylor: JD 19.79; 22.300 

Wilford Woodruff: JD 21.125-126; 23.126-127 

Lorenzo Snow: JD 20.367 

Orson Pratt: JD 21.287-288 

George Q. Cannon: JD 11.229-230 

Jedediah M. Grant: JD 2.11-12 

Moses Thatcher: JD 26.305 

“Agency”; “War in Heaven” 

The New Testament Made Easier by David Ridges 

Doctrinal New Testament Commentary by Bruce R. McConkie 

The Revelation of John the Apostle by Richard Draper and Michael Rhodes 

The Second War in Heaven as Now Being Waged by Lucifer Through Hitler as a Dummy by Nels L. Nelson 

“Free Agency and Freedom - - Some Misconceptions” by Garth Mangum 

“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” 

“The War in Heaven and Satan’s Continuing Battle for Power” by Kevin Bulloch 

“Mormonism’s Satan and the Tree of Life” by Jeffrey Bradshaw and Roman J. Head 

“’Moral, Responsible, and Free’: Mormon Conceptions of Divine Justice” by Terryl Givens 

The Mormon Jesus by John Turner 

Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right by Matthew Harris 

“Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts” by D. Michael Quinn 

“’One Soul Shall Not Be Lost’: The War in Heaven in Mormon Thought” by Boyd Jay Petersen 

“Making A Mormon of Milton” by John Tanner 

“An Ambiguous Heritage” by Thomas Alexander; also see Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet 

The Ritualization of Mormon History and Other Essays by Davis Bitton 

“The Secret Mormon Meetings of 1922” by Shannon Caldwell-Montez 

“The Doctrine of the Firstborn and Only Begotten” by Rodney Turner  

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory Prince 

“This Is My Doctrine”: The Development of Mormon Theology by Charles Harrell 

Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? by Jerald and Sandra Tanner 

“Mormonism in the New Germany” (Deseret News, December 9,1933); or here 

“The Fuhrer’s New Clothes: Helmuth Huebner and the Mormons in the Third Reich” by Alan Keele and Douglas Tobler 

Moroni and the Swastika by David Conley Nelson 

The Aryan Jesus by Susannah Heschel 

The God of Israel and Christian Theology by R. Kendall Soulen

Christian Antisemitism by Michael Brown 

The Lie the Will Not Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Hadassa Ben-Itto 

The Hebrew Republic by Eric Nelson 

The Virtue of Nationalism; Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony 

Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen 

The Joy of Hearing; Revelation (BECNT) by Thomas Schreiner 

The Book of Revelation (NIGTC) by G.K. Beale 

The Returning King by Vern Poythress 

Triumph of the Lamb by Dennis Johnson 

All Things New by Brian Tabb 

Jason Wallace: here, and here 

Defending the Faith by D.G. Hart 

The War for Righteousness by Richard Gamble 

The Great and Holy War by Philip Jenkins 

Illiberal Reformers by Thomas Leonard 

Intellectuals and Race by Thomas Sowell 

American Awakening by Joshua Mitchell 

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt