Great stuff, your thoughts as well as Jim’s.

Merry Christmas.

[Ed.: “Scripture as Incarnation” in Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, edited by Paul Y. Hoskisson, 17-61 (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center Brigham Young University, 2001).]

Thanks for posting this. I, too, like the connection you make here.

It prompts a question for me: if all revelation of the divine comes through human mediation/media, is the distinction between human and divine a human concept or a divine one?

“The scriptures tell us that God speaks to mortals line upon line and according to their language; we filter and express divine inspiration through our own prejudices and understanding. The scriptures also tell us that we are co-enterprisers in revelation, since it often only comes when we study and ask. Revelation requires a willing, laboring human host and takes the imprint of that host.”

Thanks.