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Hi all, Has anyone here read Max Skousen's "Looking Beyond the Mark" books? I've only been able to find them as pdfs: Max Skousen-Looking Beyond the Mark If any have read these, what are your thoughts? Have you found them helpful for any gospel/spiritual insights? I read them a year or so ago and found them very helpful, I'm curious what some others who have read them think of them. Thanks =)

I have ascribed to Skousen's model of the Atonement ever since I read Appendix B in his book The First 2,000 Years back in the 80's. I was wondering how many members here are aware of Skousen's intrepretation. And of those who are aware of his intrepretation, who likes it and dislikes it. And if you do like it, is your intrepretation of Skousen's intrepretation the same as mine? Found a copy of it on the net, thanks Google! Why Was the Atonement Necessary Here is also a speech that he gave on the same topic. It was an address to the missionaries in the Dallas Texas Mission back in 1980. A Personal Search for the Meaning of the Atonement We should really call it the Widtsoe/Skousen Model though. Now that I reviewed the above speech.

I have been getting a lot of flack from admirers of former FBI Special Agent W. Cleon Skousen who are claiming that I probably am intellectually dishonest -- OR that I am inventing the statements which I attribute to senior FBI officials in FBI memos discussed in my Skousen report. So, this afternoon, I revised sections of my Skousen report to include actual scanned copies of several relevant FBI memos pertaining to Skousen. I copied the memos which: (1) establish that Skousen was NOT considered an authority on communism while he worked at the FBI (2) prove that Skousen was NOT "a top aide to J. Edgar Hoover" as he and his admirers claim and (3) establish that the FBI dismissed several of Skousen's assertions which he made in his 3/71 article entitled Home Grown Subversion --- and those assertions are also made in Skousen's book, The Naked Capitalist. You may see these scanned documents here: ernie1241 - DOCUMENTS OR within the text of my Skousen report here: ernie1241 - SKOUSEN..rev 09/18/09 This should prove, once and for all, that my critics are attempting to libel me because of their own ignorance and malice about this matter.