The Beatitudes seem to take place in a temple/ritual setting with significant temple imagery. Lehi's Dream is compared.

but going through this type of a filter

understanding that the temple ...

'The Loss of Christ'

A quick history of the Israelites and Lehi's environment in Jerusalem shows us why the Book of Mormon came to be.

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I don’t agree with some of the implications in this short post, but I like the line of thinking. So much of the scriptures should be read as ritual. The examples used can easily be placed in a rituali...

This video is from the Academy for Temple Studies where Dan Peterson gives an approach to the association of the tree in Lehi’s dream, Mary and the goddess Asherah.

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A couple of years ago I was reading Ziony Zevit‘s book, What Really Happened In The Garden Of Eden? In the seventh chapter called, Why Eden? Why a Garden? Where are the trees?, Dr. Zevit makes an atte...

The church believes that this is the stone that Joseph used to translate parts of the Book of Mormon. This would be the stone that he put into a hat, then immersed his face into the hat and would then...

Some of this seems a bit of a stretch. However, based on significant research, we might all consider that the curse of dark skin given to the Lamanites is possibly a metaphor. Many ancient societies u...