Category: Scripture Notes

When Moroni received the plates he didn’t know what to write it how long he would even survive. He wrote what he had been instructed to write and lamented that he had no resources to write anything more. Over the next few decades he would expand upon that initial effort after he found some resources…

A key trait of the prophets of the Lord is that they are always inviting people to repent. They invite both friend and for. They invite those hearing them live and those who will encounter their record later. They invite when they have hope for success and also when all hope for their people is…

I finally realized a reason why the king of the Lamanites would agree to Mormon’s request to gather his people in one body. I had thought before that it would make it easier to kill the Nephites and while that is true, the reason it is important is that if the Nephites remain scattered in…

I get the feeling that Mormon sees the possibility for the gentiles to be destroyed (at least in the promised land) by a remnant of the seed of Jacob if they do not repent in the later days, much like the Nephites were destroyed when they would no longer repent. I don’t know if that…

When we seek to punish then we are not being righteous. Righteous people may seek justice but their aim is to deter or teach, not simply to exact revenge.

It is no wonder that the Nephites later imagined that Mormon could lead them to victory again – he stepped down as their leader after two successive years of victory. Afterwards they began to do in their military efforts. They failed to understand that he stepped down because of their wickedness and that thanks to…

It amazes me that the Nephites would choose a leader for their armies who was only 16 years old. If they were righteous I could believe that they saw the Lord in Mormon’s life but they weren’t righteous. He says it was because he was large in statue and I believe his report, it just…

It just occurred to me that as the people went from unity and righteousness to division and wickedness they would not have been divided into geographically separate Nations at first. Over time they likely gravitated toward such but at first they would have been intermingled. It seems that in the process they gravitated toward the…