{"id":13359,"date":"2017-04-12T07:56:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=13359"},"modified":"2017-04-12T07:56:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:56:59","slug":"study-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2017\/04\/study-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170412_075757_919.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170412_075757_919-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170412_075757_919-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170412_075757_919-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170412_075757_919-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170412_075757_919-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170412_075757_919.jpg 1564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of my notes from last month&#8217;s study of the Book of Mormon. You may have noticed that my scripture projects are always evolving. This last complete reading of the Book of Mormon, I chose to focus on four topics and write down references and quotes related to each. I chose the following topics: faith, prayer, family challenges, and the atonement of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Of the four topics, the biggest number of references were about the atonement. I wrote 11 pages of notes about it. The other topics supplied 6 pages of notes each.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few basic things I gained from this exercise of seeking deeply by topic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Book of Mormon is what it claims to be: another [powerful] testament of Jesus Christ. There were\u00a0nearly twice as many references about the atonement compared to the other topics I studied.<\/li>\n<li>Abinadi is my new favorite Book of Mormon prophet because his message is so heavily centered on Jesus Christ. I wrote more of his words (and his Messianic quotes from Isaiah) under the topic of &#8220;atonement&#8221; than any other Book of Mormon prophet.<\/li>\n<li>There are no ideal families in the Book of Mormon. What I found in Book of Mormon families was sometimes heartbreaking, but I focused on what parents did in response to the challenges. This was so helpful.<\/li>\n<li>A common word used to describe how to pray is &#8220;pour&#8221;, e.g. we need to <em>pour<\/em> out our souls in prayer. The meaning of this grows as I ponder this simple word.<\/li>\n<li>I saw that acts of faith always brought miracles, and always required incredible courage. Miraculous outcomes do not always manifest themselves as immediate physical protection. I need to embrace this concept.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These ideas seem simple and basic, but that&#8217;s how it is with profound things. Truth is simple. It&#8217;s deep, but discernable. I am learning to love the Book of Mormon this year more than I have before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of my notes from last month&#8217;s study of the Book of Mormon. You may have noticed that my scripture projects are always evolving. This last complete reading of the Book of Mormon, I chose to focus on four topics and write down references and quotes related to each. I chose the following &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2017\/04\/study-notes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study Notes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-mormon","category-book-reviews","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13361,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359\/revisions\/13361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}