2 Nephi 13-14

(January 31, 2015)

                Reading through chapters like these, it makes me wonder about some of the gender issues that surround us today.  It is clear that the Lord through Isaiah is approaching gender issues in a matter entirely contrary to the way we view them today.  But that leads to the obvious question of whether the Lord was speaking to the people of Israel where they were then (speaking to their understanding) or whether He was giving timeless truth that we have since gone astray from.

                There is no intellectual way that I can see to come to a proper answer to this question.  That is why continuing revelation is so vitally important.  We can look to our leaders, to modern revelation, and to the whisperings of the Spirit as we seek to know more about this (or any other) cultural issue. The hope, of course, is that if we approach all of these things in a spirit of love that even when we make mistakes we will not cause too much harm and the Lord will be able to do His work through us even when we imperfectly understand the truth.