31. "We are His Offspring": Distinguishing Universal Image-Status from Particular Adoption-Status

In this episode, Brendon and Skyler discuss the thirty-first lesson in the LDS Come, Follow Me sunday school manual. This week (July 24-30) is titled "The Lord Had Called Us for to Preach the Gospel" and covers Acts 16-21.

We invite you to worship with us on any Sunday - either at First Baptist Church of Provo or Christ Presbyterian Church in Magna. We welcome visitors!

"I Am A Child of God" LDS Hymn #301

The Family: A Proclamation To The World

Seminary Manual (*correction: only one day of the curriculum, not two)

Gospel Principles Manual

The New Testament Made Easier by David Ridges

Joseph Smith: here and here

Brigham Young: JD 1: 46-53; JD 4:218; JD 10.319-320; JD 11:268 

A Rational Theology by John Widtsoe

"Joseph Smith and the Forging of Community" by Terryl Givens

Eternal Man by Truman Madsen

Core Christianity; Christless Christianity by Michael Horton

Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen

• Reformed Forum episode- particularly Lane Tipton's commentary on the Liberal phrase "the universal fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man". (Also see his very excellent book The Trinitarian Theology of Cornelius Van Til)

The Trinity: An Introduction by Scott Swain

The Attributes of God: An Introduction by Gerald Bray

Simply Trinity; None Greater by Matthew Barrett

The Holiness of God by R.C. Sproul

God In the Whirlwind by David Wells

The Incarnation of God by John Clark and Marcus Peter Johnson

Contemplating God with the Great Tradition by Craig Carter

The Bible Among the Myths by John Oswalt

Created In God's Image by Anthony Hoekema

Being God's Image by Carmen Imes

Paul: An Outline of His Theology by Herman Ridderbos

We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of Idolatry; Union with the Resurrected Christ by G.K. Beale

The God Who Is There; The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God; How Long, O Lord? by D.A. Carson (also here)

Thanksgiving by David Pao

Kingdom Prologue by Meredith Kline

The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations by Robert Miller III

n the Beginning...We Misunderstood by Johnny Miller and John Soden

The Hope of Israel: The Resurrection of Christ in the Acts of the Apostles by Brandon Crowe

The Acts of the Apostles by Joseph Fitzmyer

The Spirit, the Church, and the World by John Stott

"The Encounter of Jerusalem with Athens" by Greg Bahnsen (see also here and here)

"Resurrection, Proof, and Presuppositionalism: Acts 17:30-31" by Lane Tipton, found in Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed Aopologetics, edited by K. Scott Oliphant and Lane Tipton

The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity by Daniel Mahoney

Destroyer of the Gods by Larry Hurtado

The Rise of Christianity by Rodney Stark

Abortion and the Early Church by Michael Gorman

Embryo: A Defense of Human Life by Robert P. George

Dominion by Tom Holland

Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning by Justin Dyer

American Awakening by Joshua Mitchell

The Harvest of Hellenism by F. E. Peters

Stoicism; Epicureanism

Ancient Greek Religion; Ancient Roman Religion by H.J. Rose

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization by Anthony Esolen

The Consequence of Ideas by R.C. Sproul

A History of Western Philosophy and Theology by John Frame

On some further issues of concern pertaining to OUR, which don't even include, to put it nicely, his books of basically straight-up fake history - see Lynn Packer. (also here) Packer's track-record includes the exposing of LDS General Authority Paul H. Dunn. For this, see his book Lying For the Lord - the Paul H. Dunn Stories.

relatedly: The QAnon Deception by James Beverley (also here)