LESSON VII.
SCRIPTURE READING EXERCISE.
THE MODERN SCRIPTURES—(B) THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE.
| ANALYSIS. | REFERENCES. |
| I. History and Doctrine in the Book of
Abraham.
1. The Priesthood of Abraham from the Fathers. 2. Origin of the Egyptians. 3. Domination of Egyptian Religious Ideas; Chaldea in Abraham's Times. 4. Abraham's Knowledge of Astronomy through Urim and Thummim. 5. The Pre-Existence of Spirits and the Eternal Existence of Intelligences. 6. The Purpose in Man's Earth Probation, Choice of the Redeemer. 7. Creation Story Revealed to Abraham--Plurality of Gods. | (a) Book of Abraham,
Chap. i; 1-4; 25-31. (b) Chap. i: 21-28. (c) Chap. i. (d) Chap. iii: 1-18. New Witness for God, Vol. I, pp. 443-453. (e) Chap. iii: 16-26. (f) Chap. iii: 22-28. (g) Chaps. iv-v. |
SPECIAL TEXT: "If two things exist, and there be one above the other, there shall be greater things above them. * * * * Now, if there be two things, one above the other, and the moon be above the earth, then it may be that a planet or a star may exist above it; * * * * as also if there be two spirits, and one shall be more intelligent than the other, yet those two spirits notwithstanding one is more intelligent than the other, have no beginning; they existed before, they shall have no end, they shall exist after, for they are gnolaum, or eternal. * * * * These two facts do exist, that there are two spirits, one being more intelligent than the other; there shall be another more intelligent than they; I am the Lord thy God, I am more intelligent than them all."—THE LORD TO ABRAHAM.