[Teachldsseminary] Preparation for Next Year's NT Lessons

[E. Keith (JB) Howick, Jr.]

I hope you'll forgive me for voicing an opinion.

I'm not sure the Lord meant fiction when He taught that we should study 
out of the best books, .  Despite the best efforts of good authors, the 
nature of fiction is to entertain, not educate, and some of the "facts" 
that you would be passing along to our youth would be misleading at 
best, wrong at worst.  Students of the scriptures and Church history can 
easily point out factual errors in all of the books you've mentioned.  
The Church's policy concerning plays or skits that involve the Savior 
are a good guideline for preparing to teach the Savior in Seminary: 
Treat the Lord with the utmost respect, and at no time should the 
character in the skit or play be given lines other than direct quotes 
from scripture.

JB Howick
President, Wallace Branch

TERRY L HAYNIE wrote:
> I have used the Kingdom and the Crown series by Gerald Lund and Mary & 
> Joseph by Robert Marcum to prepare for my New testament year. They are 
> fiction but are very similar in style to the work and Glory books. I 
> am currently reading the Life of Jesus Christ From Bethlehem through 
> The Sermon on the Mount by Richard Holzapfel and Thomas Wayment. I 
> have the other books in this series too, they are heavier than the 
> others but ful of information.

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