Day 195
- Principle: The more you study parables the deeper your understanding
- Book of Mormon Reading: Alma 32:34 - 33:11
- What does Alma teach that is the end goal of learning? How does he encourage you to continue to learn?
- Study the Bible Dictionary under the section Parables.
- Pick one, or more, of the parables to study. Look for the three keys laid out from yesterday.
- What was the question that prompted the parable.
- What is the Major Message?
- What are the Special Meanings of each part?
- Pick one, or more, of the parables to study. Look for the three keys laid out from yesterday.
- Bruce R. McConkie taught:
- “Our Lord used parables on frequent occasions during his ministry to teach gospel truths. His purpose, however, in telling these short stories was not to present the truths of his gospel in plainness so that all his hearers would understand. Rather it was so to phrase and hide the doctrine involved that only the spiritually literate would understand it, while those whose understandings were darkened would remain in darkness. . . . The difference in receptiveness to the truth of the Jews, among whom our Lord ministered in mortality, and the Nephites, to whom he went after his resurrection, is nowhere better shown than in the fact that he gave at least 40 parables to the Jews, but he taught the Nephites, not in parables, but in plainness.” (McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, pp. 553–54.)
- Additional Study:
- David B. Haight, “My Neighbor - My Brother!”, April 1987
- Truth Reflects upon Our Senses, Hymns No. 273
- I Have Two Little Hands, Children’s Songbook No. 272