Comments on: Reading Nephi – 12:6-12 https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2016/05/reading-nephi-126-12/ Truth Will Prevail Sun, 05 Aug 2018 23:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 By: James Olsen https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2016/05/reading-nephi-126-12/#comment-538018 Sat, 28 May 2016 00:15:25 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=35253#comment-538018 Yes the 12, though I mean institution in a broad sense. The 12 disciples become a theocratic body that controls the administration of the sacrament, the teaching of the people, and ultimately judge them. I don’t mean to read them is exactly like our Apostles — it’s about their communal function. And of course I’ve no idea if their functions continued or were passed on to others — the text says nothing. But generational continuity isn’t needed for an institution to be an institution.

Again, I was speaking broadly — I don’t mean to hang anything on the term I used for noting Christ’s specifically organizing a theocratic group.

]]> By: Clark Goble https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2016/05/reading-nephi-126-12/#comment-537917 Tue, 17 May 2016 15:47:34 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=35253#comment-537917 Where are you getting the institution bit from? The 12 disciples? I’m not sure they’re portrayed as an institution although I suspect with our own institution of the 12 it might be natural to read it that way. But the text doesn’t portray them as anything but 12 who judge. They aren’t presented as an institution that persists and has members replaced.

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