David Journal

Category: Scripture Notes

  • Traditions that were not correct

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    The sons of Mosiah wanted to bring the Lamanites to understand the baseness of the traditions of their fathers that were not correct. Previously I read that as saying that the Lamanite traditions were not correct but now I consider that it may mean only that some of their traditions were not correct. Jacob had…

  • Be careful of what you start

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    And it came to pass that he began to cry unto the people, saying: Behold, I am guilty, and these men are spotless before God. And he began to plead for them from that time forth; but they reviled him, saying: Art thou also possessed with the devil? And they spit upon him, and cast…

  • Foreknowledge of God

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    I always used to think that the foreknowledge of God regarding those who would be high priests was interesting but this time I had the feeling that the righteousness they displayed wasn’t referring to what they did in the premortal life. I realized that this was referring to them making righteous choices in their mortal…

  • Infinite Atonement

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    And Amulek said unto him: Yea, he is the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth, and all things which in them are; he is the beginning and the end, the first and the last; And he shall come into the world to redeem his people; and he shall take upon him the transgressions…

  • The opening message

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    As I read this i realized that Alma didn’t record his initial message to the people of Ammonihah. He started his record at the point that they were trying to reject what he had already said.

  • His mortal mission

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    And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people. And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his…

  • More light; more responsibility

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    The elders of the church were regularly seeking revelation and receiving it. The Lord makes clear that receiving more revelation places them under a greater responsibility to obey what they have been taught.

  • The conditions of salvation

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    And now I ask of you on what conditions are they saved? Yea, what grounds had they to hope for salvation? What is the cause of their being loosed from the bands of death, yea, and also the chains of hell? Behold, I can tell you—did not my father Alma believe in the words which…

  • Church leading to wickedness

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    Alma’s experience if watching the example of those in the church leading those outside the church on to greater and greater wickedness makes me imagine what it would be like today to see members of the church leading others towards iniquity. I’m sure in Alma’s day and ours that the reality was that the leaders…

  • Secession

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    When the people who wanted Amlici as their king lost the vote they made Amlici their king anyway, seceding from the Nephites then didn’t to subjugate the Nephites. I wonder if we will ever come to a time in this nation where a faction secedes because if a desire to follow a specific purpose (different…