The course of study for LDS Gospel Doctrine classes for 2018 is the Old Testament, which is a problem for some teachers because the manual has so many Mormon misreadings of Old Testament verses as well as adopted Christian misreadings of Old Testament verses. And if you are a teacher who follows any sort of ethics of teaching, you simply won't knowingly make false or misleading statements when you teach, or endorse a false or misleading interpretation of a text. One solution is to simply ignore the outdated manual and just do "read and discuss" lessons. But questions of interpretation will still come up. I have found a nice resource at LDS.org to enrich that discussion. Well, it's at the Mormon Newsroom, which is good enough: Reverence for the Bible, a short essay published in 2008. No author identified, of course.
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