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FARMS Web Site Features Insightful Papers

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FARMS Web Site Features Insightful Papers

Under both the Free Services and Members Services sections of the FARMS Web site is a link called Featured Papers, where each month (and sometimes more often) a different FARMS paper is featured. Visitors to the site can read the paper online or print it out. To print the paper in a reader-friendly format, choose the print icon at the top of the displayed paper rather than the print command from your operating system. The regular print command will print the paper but not preserve the formatting.

The currently featured paper, titled "Nephi II," is by Noel B. Reynolds, former president of FARMS and now a member of its board of trustees. The paper is a transcript from a series of video lectures on the Book of Mormon and focuses on Nephi's teachings on "the doctrine of Christ" (2 Nephi 31:21): repentance, humility, the Holy Ghost, pressing forward along the straight and narrow path, and hope.

In discussing the Holy Ghost, Reynolds says one of its functions "seems to be that of giving a witness to the convert from the Father and the Son. So, just as baptism by water constitutes a witness from the convert to the Father, so the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost is a witness from the Father and Son to the convert. It witnesses of the Father and the Son, thereby fulfilling the promise of the gospel that if you 'enter in by the way,' ye shall receive (2 Nephi 32:5)."

Reynolds explains that Nephi's teachings about the doctrine, or gospel, of Christ are summarized in 2 Nephi 31. Nephi teaches that the gospel enables all men to be cleansed and to return to the Father, and as Reynolds points out, Nephi's final focus on this gospel is evidence of its importance.

Other papers that can be found on the FARMS Web site include "Leaders to Managers: The Fatal Shift," by Hugh W. Nibley; "The Temple and the Atonement," by Truman G. Madsen; "The Marketplace of Ideas," by Elder Henry B. Eyring; and "Other Voices from the Dust," by Daniel C. Peterson.

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