{"id":77502,"date":"2019-08-27T23:36:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T05:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=77502"},"modified":"2019-08-31T22:15:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T04:15:49","slug":"the-importance-of-christian-unity-in-1-corinthians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/08\/the-importance-of-christian-unity-in-1-corinthians.html","title":{"rendered":"“The Importance of Christian Unity in 1 Corinthians”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Facsimile 1 in the Book of Abraham \u00a0(LDS Media Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A video supplement created by Dr. Hales Swift for\u00a0Come, Follow Me<\/em>\u00a0Lesson 34: \u201c\u2018Ye Are the Body of Christ\u201d is now available on the Interpreter Foundation\u00a0website:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Importance of Christian Unity in 1 Corinthians\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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From the invaluable Jeff Lindsay:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIs There Direct Evidence that the Early Saints Had Heard of Champollion?\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cDealing with \u201cFriendly Fire\u201d on the Book of Abraham\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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From South America:<\/p>\n

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\u201cProphet Encourages Ecuadorian Saints to Make the Home a Laboratory of Love:\u00a0President Nelson visits third country in three days\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cPresident Nelson Reminds Colombians What Is Possible Through Jesus Christ:\u00a0Global faith leader meets with Colombian President\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Her use of the term war<\/em> is more than a bit over the top, but it\u2019s an interesting article nonetheless:<\/p>\n

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\u201cA year later, how successful is the war on the word \u2018Mormon\u2019?\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Part \u2014 only part \u2014 of an argument (regarding the Book of Mormon) that I\u2019ve formulated for a future book:<\/p>\n

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First of all, the evidence strongly supports the traditional account in saying that the original manuscript was orally dictated. The kinds of errors that occur in the manuscript are clearly those that occur from a scribe mishearing, rather than from visually misreading while copying from another manuscript. (The printer\u2019s manuscript, by contrast, shows precisely the types of anomalies that one would expect from a copyist\u2019s errors.) Professor Skousen\u2019s meticulous analysis even suggests that Joseph was working with up to twenty to thirty words at a time.[1]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

It is apparent that Joseph could see the spelling of names on whatever it was that he was reading from.[2]<\/a> When the scribe had written the text, he or she would evidently read it back to Joseph Smith for correction.[3]<\/a> So the Prophet evidently had something with him from which he was dictating, and against which he could check what his scribes had written. But what was it? The witnesses are unanimous that he did not have any books or manuscripts or papers with him during the translation process, which involved lengthy periods of dictation. [4]<\/a> In an interview with her son, Joseph Smith III, not long before she died, Emma Smith insisted that Joseph had no text with him during the work of translation:<\/span><\/p>\n

Q.Had he not a book or manuscript from which he read, or dictated to you?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A.He had neither manuscript or book to read from.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Q.Could he not have had, and you not know it?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A.If he had anything of the kind he could not have concealed it from me.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Emma Smith could speak authoritatively regarding the period during which she herself served as scribe. But what about the much longer period when Oliver Cowdery was taking the dictation? While they were in Harmony, Pennsylvania\u2014where most of the Book of Mormon text was committed to writing\u2014Emma says that Joseph and Oliver were not far away from her:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Where did father and Oliver Cowdery write?<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Oliver Cowdery and your father wrote in the room where I was at work.[5]<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    [1]<\/a> Skousen, \u201cTranslating the Book of Mormon,\u201d 67-75; Skousen, \u201cHow Joseph Smith Translated the Book of Mormon,\u201d 25.<\/span><\/p>\n

    [2]<\/a> Skousen, \u201cTranslating the Book of Mormon,\u201d 75-82; Skousen, \u201cHow Joseph Smith Translated the Book of Mormon,\u201d 27.<\/span><\/p>\n

    [3]<\/a> Skousen, \u201cTranslating the Book of Mormon,\u201d 82-84; Skousen, \u201cHow Joseph Smith Translated the Book of Mormon,\u201d 27.<\/span><\/p>\n

    [4]<\/a> See Skousen, \u201cTranslating the Book of Mormon,\u201d 62; Skousen, \u201cHow Joseph Smith Translated the Book of Mormon,\u201d 24.<\/span><\/p>\n

    [5]<\/a> \u201cLast Testimony of Sister Emma,\u201d Saints\u2019 Advocate<\/em> 1\/4 (October 1879): 50-52; Saints\u2019 Herald<\/em> 26\/19 (1 October 1879): 290. [See originals.]<\/span><\/p>\n

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    \u00a0 \u00a0 A video supplement created by Dr. Hales Swift for\u00a0Come, Follow Me\u00a0Lesson 34: \u201c\u2018Ye Are the Body of Christ\u201d is now available on the Interpreter Foundation\u00a0website: \u00a0 \u201cThe Importance of Christian Unity in 1 Corinthians\u201d \u00a0 *** \u00a0 From the invaluable Jeff Lindsay: \u00a0 \u201cIs There Direct Evidence that the Early Saints Had Heard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n"The Importance of Christian Unity in 1 Corinthians"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"    A video supplement created by Dr. Hales Swift for\u00a0Come, Follow Me\u00a0Lesson 34: \u201c\u2018Ye Are the Body of Christ\u201d is now available 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