Skip to content
Feast

Reading paths

From the Hebrew of the word to the garden

What the Atonement actually does

Start with the word itself, then the mechanism, then the two texts that describe the event — one written seven centuries before it and one in the first person by the person it happened to.

Who this is for

You want the doctrine at close range rather than as a term that appears in every talk.

7 steps3 hr 32 min

0 of 7 started
  1. Wordkāphar — to cover; to atone; to ransomכָּפַרThe Hebrew verb behind Yom Kippur. Its range runs from covering to ransoming, and the English word was coined to translate it.6 min
  2. FigureThe two deaths, and the two remediesHelaman 14:16–18; 1 Corinthians 15:22What the Fall broke and what is repaired — one unconditionally, one on condition.3 min
  3. LessonJustice, Mercy, and an Infinite AtonementAlma 34; 42; Alma 7:11–13Amulek on the infinite sacrifice, and Alma to Corianton on how mercy can operate without robbing justice.55 min
  4. FigureHow mercy satisfies justiceAlma 34:14–16; Alma 42:22–25The three-party diagram. Most confusion here comes from imagining a system with only two.3 min
  5. LessonThe ServantIsaiah 52:13–53:12; Mosiah 14–15; Acts 8:26–39Fifteen verses written seven centuries early, with the Hebrew that the King James softened.50 min
  6. LessonThe Oil PressMatthew 26:36–46; Mark 14:32–42; Luke 22:39–46; D&C 19:15–24Three Gospel accounts and two Restoration texts on the most closely examined half-hour in scripture.50 min
  7. LessonThe Condescension of God1 Nephi 11:13–33; Philippians 2:5–8; D&C 88:6; Mosiah 3:5–8How far down He came — Nephi's vision and the Greek verb in Philippians 2.45 min

Paths do not contain anything the library does not already have — they are an order to read it in. Nothing is locked, and you can leave one at any point.