David Journal

Category: Scripture Notes

  • Author’s foreword

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    I love how clearly and concisely Moroni articulates the origin and purpose of the Book of Mormon in the title page. I would think any honest seeker of truth who read that would be interested to learn what such a record contained.

  • Much to think about

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    I can only imagine how much Joseph found himself pondering every year in what he had learned from Moroni and what it would be like to finally have the plates.

  • A fresh start on the Book of Mormon

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    I am excited to study the Book of Mormon again this year in church. I have been pondering recently on its place as a special witness of Christ and the restoration and the keystone of a testimony of the restoration. I am hopeful that we can find a way to help the children actually engage…

  • If the gifts of God be done away among you…

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    Moroni knew what it was like for the gifts of God to be done away among a people because he surely saw that among the Nephites before they were destroyed. He would have seen that whenever a person among the Nephites did good they did so by exercising godly gifts. On a separate note I…

  • We have a work to do

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    I can only imagine the fortitude required to continue working when there was so little hope of success in bringing the people back to God.

  • A critical clarification

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    There aren’t many places where the Book of Mormon directly and undeniably contradicts a belief that is widespread in modern Christianity but perhaps the most important instance if that is the clarity with which Mormon rejects the concept of infant baptism calling it a “mockery before God.” Not only that, but his words about those…

  • Angels

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    Humans tend to define angels as heavenly, immortal beings but we also describe mortals as angels when they do things (especially extraordinary things) that are consistent with what we would expect a loving God would want to do for us. Perhaps God makes no distinction between mortal and install servants. Perhaps angels are all who…

  • The way to judge

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    That which is of God inviteth and enticeth to do good continually… …every thing which inviteth to do good and to persuade to believe in Christ is sent forth by the power and gift of Christ. Moroni 7:23,16 I want to be more conscious of this standard in my life—more deliberately cognizant of which things…

  • In the forehead and the hand

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    People interpret the mark of the beast which will be in the hand or the forehead of those who have it to be a physical mark of some kind. Today I realized that the mark of the beast was like the law of the Lord which shall be written in the fleshy tables of the…

  • The great whore

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    I can understand how done people have, in times past, concluded that the great harlot described in Revelation was the Catholic Church. Certainly the great whore operated within/through the church especially during the centuries where the Catholic Church was the predominant bastion of power in most of the world. With that being said I suspect…