I’ll look for something from Nibley to send you. Most of them are pretty big books, but he has some well known essays. I’ve attached one of my favorites:
My skype address is troy.keller30 We’ll be looking out for you to call!
Quick answer to a couple of your questions, those about dinosaurs and cavemen. Not sure if Talmage was less certain 110 years ago, but there’s zero doubt today that there were dinosaurs. The fossil record is a pretty incredible map God has left for us so that we can understand his creations. Remember, there’s also no real debate anymore about the age of the earth being very, very old. Many things, creatures and peoples have lived here. So there’s more that we don’t know than what we do know, which is kind of cool, because it means we can just keep exploring and learning. For example, what exactly it means to say Adam was the first man is not fixed doctrine. Could be he was the founder of the first civilization, roughly the time when history started being recorded roughly 10,000 years ago. Or maybe he’s a metaphor for everyman. (Nibley even taught once that the original word for Adam wasn’t necessarily singular. That it could be plural. Not sure what to do with that!). Certainly, the first prophet in the priesthood line is going to be Adam, whenever that might have been. So who were the cavemen and where do they fit? Unclear, but I suspect they were mostly pre-establishment of priesthood on earth and likely closer to the animal kingdom, but either way the atonement will be large enough to have a place for them.
From: Morgan Keller
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2018 3:54 PM
To: Father
Subject: Hugh nibley
I completely forgot to ask on Monday, but could you send me some of Hugh Nibleys writings? Our branch president was talking to me about the symbolism behind numbers (3,8,12 being holy numbers with different individual meanings) and said he read about it from Professor Nibley. I know you took a class by him so I would absolutely love if there was anything that stood out to you I could read!
I just finished Jesus the Christ and it was so amazing!!! I wrote down all my questions from it and I have heaps Haha. I'll send you a picture of them in case you're bored over the holiday season and would like to do some spiritual searching.
Thanks for always encouraging me to increase my spiritual and temporal knowledge! You're a great example to me. Sorry my emails have been short these past few weeks, I get kind of distracted on P days Haha
I can't wait to Skype yous tomorrow!!!! Did you get to call home when you were on a mission? Anyways it will be so good to see all of your beautiful faces and hear your lovely voices!
Oh yeah can I have your Skype number or name?
Much love!
Sister Keller
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