by Nathan Richardson | Jun 26, 2011 | Do-It-Yourself Scriptures, Doctrine and Covenants, gospel, redesigned scriptures, scriptures
Here are some insights I gained when I created my own customized the layout of the Doctrine and Covenants from the files on my Do-It-Yourself Scripture page. I created my own personalized edition of the scriptures that is annotated in a way that made sense to me. Since I am sometimes asked this question, let me clarify: I am not talking about writing your own scriptures, or altering the wording of the current scriptures in order to satisfy your preferences. I am talking about choosing fonts and page size, inserting headings where a new section seems to begin, etc.
by Nathan Richardson | Jun 7, 2011 | Book of Mormon, gospel, scriptures
In a previous post, I summarized an article by Joseph Spencer entitled “Prolegomena to Any Future Study of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon.” Recently, I had the chance to email back and forth with Joe and ask him some questions I still had after reading his article, and he gave me permission to post our exchange as an interview.
by Nathan Richardson | Jun 1, 2011 | Book of Mormon, gospel, scriptures
I recently read an article that pointed out some interesting patterns. In 1 and 2 Nephi, Isaiah and several themes related to his teachings are used extensively. Then, suddenly, Isaiah goes completely unused in Enos through Helaman (and the first part of 3 Nephi). Then, Isaiah is reintroduced “with a vengeance” in 3 Nephi by the Savior, almost as soon as He appears to the Nephites. Joe Spencer drew some interesting conclusions as to why that might be.
by Nathan Richardson | Apr 18, 2011 | gospel
We had an interfaith dialogue today with a group of about nine evangelical students and their professor, Dr. Dennis Okholm, from Azusa Pacific University, in the Los Angeles area of southern California. I invited some LDS friends so we could have about even numbers. That way everyone gets more of a chance to talk to someone else. We broke up into groups of 3-6 people and got to discuss beliefs. We had so much fun that we went on talking for over 3 hours.
by Nathan Richardson | Apr 1, 2011 | Doctrine and Covenants, gospel, scriptures
This morning, I just unwittingly found a small difference in the scriptural text between the 1981 printed edition and the online scripture text. Yes, I know that “thrash” and “thresh” are two forms of the same word, having the same meaning. I also know that the current online edition incorporated small changes to the supplementary material and in a few cases to the punctuation. But I did not know that the online edition had incorporated any changes to the actual wording of the scriptures. Very interesting!
