Comments on: How We Taught This Lesson in the Past: Lesson 9: “God Will Provide Himself a Lamb” http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/02/21/how-we-taught-this-lesson-in-the-past-lesson-9-god-will-provide-himself-a-lamb/ Where our past is never very long ago Sat, 25 May 2013 06:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/02/21/how-we-taught-this-lesson-in-the-past-lesson-9-god-will-provide-himself-a-lamb/comment-page-1/#comment-19910 Ardis E. Parshall Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:36:32 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=5257#comment-19910 Thanks for doing that research, Hunter; I was familiar with some of his work but not as much as you found. I’ve used one of his old Sunday School manuals for the text of several future posts in this series and liked his manual better than nearly anything else I was able to find. I bought his O.T. commentary for use during this Sunday School year, though, and was very disappointed in it after seeing how good he *could* be — this commentary only comments on the most obvious and easily understood phrases and doesn’t get into anything that I really need help with. I wouldn’t recommend anybody else waste their money with it — but I *did* like his old manual (not this one from BYU, but one used in the Sunday Schools).

]]> By: Hunter http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/02/21/how-we-taught-this-lesson-in-the-past-lesson-9-god-will-provide-himself-a-lamb/comment-page-1/#comment-19909 Hunter Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:11:48 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=5257#comment-19909 Well, I should have searched a little before I asked the question. A Wikipedia article on Professor Rasmussen (here) indicates, among other things, that he worked on the 1978 edition of the LDS scriptures, that he served on the Correlation Committee at one point, and, in partial answer to my question, that he authored a Sunday School manual in 1964 titled “Patriarchs of the Old Testament.” (Deseret News article linked from Wiki page here)

]]> By: Hunter http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/02/21/how-we-taught-this-lesson-in-the-past-lesson-9-god-will-provide-himself-a-lamb/comment-page-1/#comment-19907 Hunter Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:00:46 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=5257#comment-19907 I read this over the weekend, and overall, thought that the questions asked were thoughtful and interesting. (I couldn’t answer most of them!) Also, I liked the approach of commenting on a couple of verses at a time. I like it when a teacher or lesson takes the time to really dig in and examine a text, line by line.

You said, “Beware of the several places in this lesson which read the discredited ‘curse of Cain’ doctrine into the decision to transfer the birthright . . .” Given the year that the lesson was published, it sort of surprises me that the author doesn’t go to town with a lot of the folk doctrines on the supposed curse in relation to blacks and the priesthood. Which all leads me to one question about the source material: Is there any evidence that this lesson (or course) was used outside this particular BYU religion class?

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