Audio Podcast Of The Interpreter Foundation

  In this week’s Come, Follow Me segment of Interpreter Radio, our hosts Bruce Webster, Kris Frederickson and Martin Tanner introduce our new show format. Each show will be divided into a number of segments that may vary from week to week. One segment will provide information that will supplement the study of the Come, […] The post Interpreter Radio: The New Testament in Context Lesson 1 (We Are Responsible for Our Own Learning) first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Abstract: Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have a unique perspective on truth. Our knowledge that Salvation likely involves participation in complex eternal activities requiring significantly more understanding than we currently possess naturally leads us to seek truth and, in addition, to seek an understanding of that truth. Under these circumstances, […] The post We Live in the Olden Days: Reflections on the Importance of Scientific and Theological Humility first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

In this article, the distinguished planetary scientist John S. Lewis discusses several aspects of the creation stories in scripture for the purpose of distinguishing anachronistic modern reinterpretations from the content of the original vision. The post Conference Talks: The Scale of Creation in Space and Time first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

This lectures talks about Hebrews 6:4, 6. It suggests that it is possible for men to be gifted with everything only to later lose everything; then, it is not possible for them to regain those blessings by their own works. The post Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets — Prophets and Reformers first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

This is an Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me Old Testament Lesson 52, “We Have Waited for Him, and He Will Save Us” on Christmas. The panelists for this roundtable were Terry Hutchinson, John Gee and Kevin Christensen. This roundtable was extracted from the November 13th broadcast of Interpreter Radio. The complete show may […] The post Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Old Testament Lesson 52 (Christmas) first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Review of Meir Bar-Ilan, Words of Gad the Seer (Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace Publishing, 2016); Christian Israel, The Words of Gad the Seer: Bible Cross-Reference Edition (self-published, 2020); and Ken Johnson, Ancient Book of Gad the Seer: Referenced in 1 Chronicles 29:29 and Alluded to in 1 Corinthians 12:12 and Galatians 4:26 (self-published, 2016). Abstract: […] The post The Words of Gad the Seer: An Apparently Ancient Text With Intriguing Origins and Content first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Almost all conceptions of human agency are rooted in libertarianism and grounded in a set of assumptions about the nature of the non-human world, the nature of causality, and the nature of determinism. The effect of this is that agency is always understood around two mutually exclusive positions, compatibilism and incompatibilism. Within this intellectual context, human agency is always impossible, trivial, or illusory. Human agency is drawn into discussions of science and religion because most traditional “scientific” notions of causality and determination are understood in ways that make agency impossible, and most religious positions try to reconcile themselves to the classical libertarian position, which is self-contradictory. The presentation proposed here argues for a new understanding of human agency which requires a rethinking of causality and determinism that is compatible with science. And a refutation of agency that most religious positions unwisely endorse. Agency turns out to be not so much a mat

This lecture is a radio talk on the Book of Mormon as a witness of continuing revelation and God’s dealings with mankind. The post Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets — The Book of Mormon as a Witness first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

This is an Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me Old Testament Lesson 51, “I Have Loved You, Saith the Lord” on Malachi. The panelists for this roundtable were Neal Rappleye, Jasmin Rappleye, Stephen O. Smoot, and Hales Swift. This roundtable was extracted from the November 6th broadcast of Interpreter Radio. The complete show may […] The post Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Old Testament Lesson 51 (Malachi) first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Abstract: The seeming appearance of a lineal or generational curse in the Book of Abraham has been used erroneously to marginalize people and justify racist ideas in Latter-day Saint history. To avoid any further misinterpretation of scripture in ways that are hurtful to others, the following attempts to elucidate the meaning of lineal curses within the […] The post “Being of that Lineage”: Generational Curses and Inheritance in the Book of Abraham first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.