User talk:RobertC/Jacob's birthright

From our discussion last week in gospel doctrine class, I learned that we cannot be certain Jacob did anything wrong in "decieving" his father for the birthright blessing. After all, you'd think Isaac would have had power after the fact to revoke the blessing, or to give Essau an even better blessing. But that was not the case. Isaac later blessed Jacob even further, because it was not really Isaac giving the blessings. It was the Lord, through Isaac. If the blessings were meant for Jacob, how could he have sinned in receiving them? Plus we know through modern revelation that the Bible is true as far as it is translated correctly. Quite possibly we don't have the full story in our present Bible. --SteveJensen March 14th