This is an update because Professor Grant Hardy initiated my interest in Sacred Texts.
We will one day be in the spirit world with these ancient peoples and those of differing religious beliefs, trying to unite together and it is reasonable to expect them to ask if we respected their Sacred Texts; I want to be able to say Yes – this not being a stumbling block between them and me – and be heard, Every knee will bow… And I will add, together.
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God the Father has given Jesus Christ a name above all others, so that eventually every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ. He is the way, the truth, and the light, and no one can come back into the presence of our Father in heaven except through him. Christ is God the Son and possesses every virtue in its perfection. Therefore, the only measure of true greatness is how close a man can become like Jesus. That man is greatest who is most like Christ, and those who love him most will be most like him. Ezra Taft Benson Every-knee-will-bow testimony
Hamblin & Peterson: Biblical names for Lord have a strange history
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Daniel C. Peterson founded BYU’s Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, chairs The Interpreter Foundation, and blogs on Patheos. William Hamblin is the author of several books on premodern history. They speak only for themselves. Google search for other examples.
Daniel C. Peterson, a native of southern California, received a bachelor’s degree in Greek and philosophy from Brigham Young University (BYU) and, after several years of study in Jerusalem and Cairo, earned his PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Peterson is a professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic at BYU, where he teaches many classes, among them Arabic language and literature at all levels, Islamic philosophy, and Islamic culture and civilization. He also served as editor-in-chief of BYU’s Middle Eastern Texts Initiative. He is a former member of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU. Peterson is the first and current editor of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture. Peterson, Daniel C. | Religious Studies Center
Mormon Stories – LDS Church apologist Daniel Peterson | Mormon Stories Podcast
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ADDENDUM
apologist
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a·pol·o·gist
əˈpäləjist/
noun
a person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial.
“Daniel C. Peterson is an enthusiastic apologist for Mormonism”
synonyms: defender, supporter, upholder, advocate, proponent, exponent, propagandist, champion, campaigner; informal-cheerleader
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