Comments on: In Our Ward: Lesson 8: “O How Great the Goodness of Our God” http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/02/26/in-our-ward-lesson-8-o-how-great-the-goodness-of-our-god/ Where our past is never very long ago Sun, 19 May 2013 03:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/02/26/in-our-ward-lesson-8-o-how-great-the-goodness-of-our-god/comment-page-1/#comment-203949 Ardis E. Parshall Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:32:23 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=16942#comment-203949 Thanks, Todd. We share that hope and belief.

]]> By: Todd http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/02/26/in-our-ward-lesson-8-o-how-great-the-goodness-of-our-god/comment-page-1/#comment-203931 Todd Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:55:53 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=16942#comment-203931 There is a lot I do not understand about the doctrine of the literal resurrection. Frankly, some of what I do not understand I do not really want to understand. However, it is a doctrine that brings comfort to me (and I know I am not alone in this) because I want to continue my relationships with people that I have loved who have died. What Jacob seems to be saying is: Look at God’s history of dealing with his people. We are being scattered. Someday God will gather us. Those who witness this will have a reason to hope that God is able to gather what is scattered.

I do not understand the resurrection, but I do understand the hope of being reunited in the resurrection with people that I love and miss terribly.

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/02/26/in-our-ward-lesson-8-o-how-great-the-goodness-of-our-god/comment-page-1/#comment-203651 Ardis E. Parshall Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:01:39 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=16942#comment-203651 They were quick (quicker than I had expected) to talk about the dissolution and scattering of Israel being comparable to the dissolution and scattering of the body at death, with the promise of gathering Israel again and building a new kingdom being representational of God being able to gather and rebuild the body back into life — something that was even more unknown to the Nephites than it is to us because at that point they didn’t even have the witnesses of Jesus’s resurrection to testify to its reality.

We didn’t get much farther than that in our discussion at that point, but later on there was a little discussion about reading sermons as a whole, not just in pieces, and that recognizing what Jacob and Nephi were teaching in their easier-to-understand commentary might help make the Isaiah passages connected to them a little easier to understand.

I’d love to hear any additional thoughts you have, Todd.

]]> By: Todd http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/02/26/in-our-ward-lesson-8-o-how-great-the-goodness-of-our-god/comment-page-1/#comment-203637 Todd Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:24:48 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=16942#comment-203637 Your question about the connections between the Isaiah section and the atonement section is wonderful. Maybe you can share something about the discussion that it generated? That was a good opportunity to teach a very comforting doctrine.

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