Category: Scripture Notes
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More questions than answers
This is not a complaint or an attempt to look beyond the mark, nor is it a wish to get answers to all these questions now but it seems like it would be valuable to record the questions that have come to mind as I have been reading my patriarchal blessing today (many of which…
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Prayer
Perhaps it is because my habits related to prayer were already on my mind but in reading my patriarchal blessing today the counsel regarding praying as part of developing the gift of faith that was promised to me stood out in a way it never had before. Also, the thought came that my service in…
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How merciful the Lord hath been
It struck me differently tonight that the reason Moroni asks the reader to think on how merciful the Lord hath been to the children of men is less to say “look how the Lord has been involved in the affairs of mankind” and more to say “please notice this defining trait of your Father in…
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No grudging charity
It is possible to grudgingly do charitable things but not ready to grudgingly be kind or long-suffering. I don’t think a person can grudgingly be slow to anger. True charity of heart powered by love of God and it fellow men burns away the tendency towards giving a grudging gift.
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Details
While I find the writing in the book of Moroni to be very inspiring, especially those short early chapters about the details of how church ordinances and meetings were conducted, but i wonder if Moroni ever worried about how valuable those braid writings might prove to be.
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The principle of order
I wonder how important or useful (in a practical sense) the details of this are to us. I believe the important aspect is the understanding of order, that unless all things are equal then there will always be one greater than another until you arrive at God. The most intelligent being is God. The fact…
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“I have a work for thee”
I can imagine how empowering it would feel to have a clear understanding of the work the Lord had in store for you. There were likely times when it seemed less than clear but men like Moses and Joseph Smith could not truly doubt that they had been called and that the Lord was mindful…
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Righteousness not an option
After Coriantumr rejected the chance to repent and have the people spared that Ether delivered to him the people no longer had a chance to choose righteousness (they had already rejected it)—even if any had wanted it they would not be allowed by their fellow Jaredites to live in peace. As the armies marched from…
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Hearing the prophets
I metrics how there were successive waves of prophets coming among the Jaredites before they were finally destroyed. The people rejected them repeatedly. It made me wonder about prophets in our day. We can recognize when the prophet speaks out even when she member of the First Presidency or Quorum of the Twelve speak that…
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Freedom of religion
In never really thought before of how the widespread insistence that religion should be kept out of the public square (“feel free to practice your religion but don’t do anything publicly that another person might complain about”) is the opposite of the protection for prophets and missionaries that we observe among Lamoni and his father…