I have a new system of scripture marking since Education Week. It involves different colors of Prismacolor pencils. I use blue for commandments or instructions and pink for promises or rewards. Dark blue is for punishments, yellow is for references to Christ, and so forth. Anyway, as I read these scriptures and attempt to analyze them, I have to decide which color to use to mark them. In the scripture below, "search the prophets" would be a commandment, but what about "have many revelations and the spirit of prophesy"? Is that a commandment or a reward? Here is how I have marked this section in my scriptures:
Jacob4:6 Wherefore, we search the prophets, and we have many revelations and the spirit of prophecy; and having all these witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken, insomuch that we truly can command in the name of Jesus and the very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea.
Perhaps I'm marking too much, but I'm using one of the cheap Book of Mormons and not my permanent set and I'm still learning and experimenting.
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So what happens to all the markings you had before that aren't on that system? I've always marked the story line with one color and the teachings in red. I change the color of the story line when it changes to a new story, so I can easily find where one begins and ends, and can find the teachings in them. hmmm. I'd need to start with a new book.
ReplyDeleteThat is definitely a danger. I am marking my "good" scriptures with the same system, but I'm in the D&C right now. I guess you could always keep getting new copies when you need to.
ReplyDeleteI'll post a new entry with examples.