David Journal

Category: Scripture Notes

  • Very select groups

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    They who are the sons of perdition … are vessels of wrath, doomed to suffer the wrath of God … Having denied the Holy Spirit after having received it, and having denied the Only Begotten Son of the Father, having crucified him unto themselves and put him to an open shame. {These are} the only…

  • The tradition of his father

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    Lamoni had been taught by his father to believe in God even though they had no prescriptive beliefs of God requiring anything in particular of them. This is frequently the case—many people know of God and regardless of how much or little they know of Him their lives generally align with what they believe He…

  • A source of perpetual income

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    It sounds like the publication of the revelations was the first source of income given to support the cure leadership of the church in full time ministry.

  • Function over form

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    I’m a big fan of Joseph Smith but I have to honestly ask myself if I would be disappointed upon meeting a poorly educated 19th Century man with a limited vocabulary when I encountered the prophet. Do I have any cause to believe I’m better than those who knew Joseph in life? Would I become…

  • Quiet conversion

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    We naturally pay attention to the public) miraculous conversions such as Zeezrom who contended with Amulek and later was miraculously healed before his baptism but we can more easily overlook the conversions that are simply described as the gospel being generally established along the Nephites and as the people learning with joy that Christ would…

  • An invitation

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    This revelation to Joseph and Sydney was a gracious and loving invitation from Heavenly Father where he granted them an expensive perspective on the context of mortality with glorious promise of what was available to those who remain faithful to such great knowledge and covenants as He offers His sons and daughters.

  • Modern GOP Counterparts

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    The way that Zeezrom was astonished at the blindness of the people when he heard them using his exact discredited words to testify against Alma and Amulek made me think that Zeezrom is a model for the only way I could ever trust Mike Lee again (not that I expect it to ever happen). I…

  • Family support comes first

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    Let all such as can obtain places for their families, and support of the church for them, not fail to go into the world, whether to the east or to the west, or to the north, or to the south. And again, verily I say unto you, that every man who is obliged to provide…

  • Condemnation

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    10 …he that will harden his heart, the same receiveth the lesser portion of the word; and he that will not harden his heart, to him is given the greater portion of the word, until it is given unto him to know the mysteries of God until he know them in full.11 And they that…

  • Seek not to be cumbered

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    In Doctrine & Covenants 66:10 the Lord counsels William E. McClellan to “Seek not to be cumbered.” In my mind I couldn’t imagine anyone seeking to be cumbered so I decided to investigate that word. I asked AI about the meaning and implications of the word cumbered as it was used to describe Martha in…