Original title: Be Perfect and the BeatitudesIn this episode, Brendon and Skyler discuss the eighth lesson in the LDS Come, Follow Me sunday school manual. This week (Feb. 13-19) covers Matthew 5 and Luke 6 - and is titled "Blessed Are Ye".If you are in the Provo or Salt Lake City area - we invite you to worship with us on any Sunday - either at First Baptist Church of Provo or Christ Presbyterian Church in Magna. We welcome visitors!LDS Sources:Individuals and FamiliesBe Ye Therefore Perfect - Eventually (Jeffrey Holland)The New Testament Made Easier by David RidgesThe King Follett Discourse (Joseph Smith)JD 24:259-270 (John Taylor)JD 24:271 (George Q. Cannon)D&C 93D&C 130Brigham Young: JD 8:206-207, JD 10:5, JD 18:260John Taylor: JD 11:164, JD 23:176-177Wilford Woodruff: JD 6:120Heber C. Kimball: JD 1:355-357, JD 3:108, JD 4:329Orson Pratt: JD 1:332-333Erastus Snow: JD 21:23-25A Rational Theology by John A. WidtsoeElias: An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. WhitneyResources:When Grace Transforms by Terry JohnsonWho is God?: Key Moments of Biblical Revelation by Richard BauckhamJesus's Sermon on the Mount and His Confrontation with the World: A Study of Matthew 5-10; The Sermon on the Mount: An Evangelical Exposition of Matthew 5-7 by D. A. CarsonThe Gospel of Matthew (NICNT); Divine Government: God's Kingship in the Gospel of Mark by R.T. FranceGod's Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology by James Hamilton, Jr.WCF ch. 16 (pure motive, right manner, and God-centered goal)The Person of Jesus by J. Gresham MachenChristless Christianity by Michael Horton (here and here)Voddie Baucham (here and here)Note: The congresswoman's name was Jeanette Rankin. Her reasoning was more based on a general pacifism, as far as I could tell without looking too deeply. However, to be more clear, the point was more aimed at trying to rescue Jesus' teaching from over-familiarity, rather than a blanket endorsement of pacifism, as such. We are in the already-but-not-yet; and although peace should always be the goal, there may be times when fighting is necessary, akin to Jesus' teaching on divorce in this same passage. I try to avoid the extremes of both an under-realized eschatology and an over-realized eschatology.Just War Theory: e.g. see Augustine's City of God (and here); see the writings of Francisco de Vitoria - and more generally, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas Woods (esp. ch.'s 7, 11). On the precedent that Augustine is interacting with - see here. A Reformed thinker often overlooked is Johannes Althusius. (here, here and here.) See also American Awakening by Joshua Mitchell.

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