Allright, the update. I asked the teacher about the conspicuously missing verses and he promised that they would be covered in a different class period. I suppose he gets a pass on that for now.
Truth be told, it was actually a rather good lecture today. We spent about an hour talking about various problems people have with the Book of Abraham-- debunking most of them, of course, but that's better than not mentioning them at all, methinks.
Topping it off was a twenty minute or so discussion on what to do if information gained from science, history, etc. seems to conflict with the revealed word. The general consensus was not to be afraid of conflicts of those kinds. Given that we don't know everything about science, history, OR religion, it would be very surprising if they should agree with each other on all counts. If a conflict arises between, say, Egyptology and our understanding of the Book of Abraham, either one of the two could be wrong-- and there was plenty of emphasis on the idea that our own ideas or interpretations of the scriptures may not necessarily be accurate.
Quite reasonable, all things said.
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