When we are encouraged to ponder why certain things were included in the Book of Mormon I have the book of Omni high on my list to wonder about. I understand why the authors of that book wrote it – they were given instructions that they didn’t understand but they followed them anyway. It would be easy to say that Mormon I included the book simply because he didn’t want to abridge it but I think that is too simplistic a view. I think the Lord had a purpose in giving us some fairly mundane material. For one thing it shows us how early people can fall into simply performing rites that have list any meaning. It add demonstrates that the meaning can be rediscovered so long as sacred records exist to preserve it (as shown by Chemish).
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