Education Week - Weymont on Paul 8/20/2015

Newsroom, Approaching Mormon Doctrine  and Approaching Mormon History

The trump card is always the First Presidency and the Quorum of Twelve teaching the same thing repeatedly.  This would be our interpretation of Church doctrine.  Huckabee said very inaccurate things.  A single idea from a past discourse does not constitute doctrine.  It is his or her opinion and may be true or may not be true.  The living quorum trumps all others.

Religious Studies Center RSC.BYU.EDU, authors index, Robert Millet, What is our doctrine?  This is a great short essay.

Galations 2

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v.15 called by act of grace.  20 years later, called to lead the mission to gentiles.
v.17 Arabia, may have tried to convert people but didn't work. Three years later.
v.19 Finds Peter and James the brother of Jesus.  Wanted to know Jesus
v.21 Goes back to his home town.

Chapter two indicates 14 + 3 = 17 years.  Before he was a pharisee, arrogant.  He made a deal with the enemy to kill the Christians.  He seems to be depressed for many years trying to resolve the conflict of trying kill the followers of the Messiah.

Galations 3
v.10 workers of the law under a curse
v. 12 The law is not of faith.  Faith is in grace.  To say I did it and receive a blessing is not faith according to Paul.

Galations 5
v.1 Be not entangled with the yoke of burdens.  Circumcised - metaphor of the law.  You can't do the whole law.
v.4 Fallen from grace might mean not interested in grace.  Obedient to the law means you don't have much faith. More like a hopeful expectation that my deeds will bless me.  "Do this to get that".  Weymont seemed to say that now he just hopes.

Romans 3
v.28 Justified by faith
v. 27 Are we boasting?  It is are belief in grace.  But the law has a place.  the fundamental building block , we believe.  We are expressing are love by living the law.  Law was the Torah, 600 things.
Romans 11:6 - grace and works, works and grace
1 Cor. 13:1-2 without charity I am nothing.
v. 8 all thing vanish away
v.9 part we knew, part we prophecy
v.10 perfect,
v.11 it is mirror that we see things but not a perfect image.  We don't see things clearly.  Paul didn't either when he was prophecying.  I thought I saw things clearly. Paul is talking about himself.

1 Cor 15:48-50 - Earthy transfromed to Heavenly.  Paul is bothered by his ailing body.  He will be transformed.
2 Cor 5:2, 4-5 - Paul is embarrassed by is body.  He is short, big nose, unibrow, bow legged and has a high pitched voice.  Hoping for the resurrection.  He used to think that he would be alive a the second coming.  He now believes that he will not be.
Philippians 3:1-3
v.5 he tells us that he was a supremely good Hebrew, a cool guy.
v.6 good hebrew
v.8 Paul uses a swear word, dung.  Only one word in Hebrew.  Probably a bad word.  He life in the law was dung.
v. 9 righteousness
v.11 if by any means, wants to be resurrected.  So, maybe he didn't get his calling and election made sure.

Paul was depressed for many years before he got called to preach the gospel to the gentiles.  He believed in grace and not highly of the law.  Prophesying will fail.  Only charity remains.  He didn't think highly of is body as it deteriorated.

I feel like I have made a lot of mistakes in my beliefs like Paul causing all sorts of damage - like Paul. I am still trying resolve my conflict in my own mind.  Whatever I taught didn't produce faith in me or in my children.  I still don't have the answers.