What Day is Our Day
February 21st, 2024 by G.
Young G used to think that the chapter in 2 Nephi which is basically Yay Joseph Smith was embarrassing. It felt like Joseph Smith was making the whole thing up and felt the need to write his own reviews.
Older G as of last week finally realized that the Book of Mormon being for our day doesn’t exclusively mean 21st C America. “Our day” is probably everything from 1830 or so on. Therefore a lot of it is about the Saints and the Restoration. Joseph and the friends needed the reassurance that they were part of foretold divine history to get them through the trials to come.
For those of you who have been at this party for years and wonder what took me so long, well, I’m just happy to be here.
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February 21st, 2024 05:26:07
bruce g charlton
February 21, 2024
“being for our day doesn’t exclusively mean 21st C America”
I agree with you – about Scripture generally.
While the special relevance of particular parts is readily acknowledged; there is an excessive reluctance to accept the flip-side of this – which is that some parts of Scripture are not relevant now, although perhaps they used to be very important.
Against this is the statements of CS Lewis (and many evangelical protestants) that the “hard” parts of scripture are the *most* relevant to us.
In other words; is this “wrong-feeling” book/ passage/ verse, on the one hand, Not relevant to me-here-now…
Or… is this vital (and the apparent wrongness is in me)!
The “answer” is I suppose (as usual) – sincere and honest personal revelation.