Category: Scripture Notes
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Splintered society
When the Nephites splintered they were still opposed to those who were trying to establish a king. The splintering of the GOP such that they can’t govern even in the majority is not unlike what happened to the Nephites. Hopefully we have the same result of staying opposed to those who would convert America to…
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Subverting justice
It seems a consistent and telling characteristic that those who enter into secret combinations that they seek to subvert justice, not simply escape it. Trying to get away with murder is one thing but condemning the innocent while ensuring that the guilty go unpunished is a more telling pattern.
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Within ten years
It’s interesting to realize that a mere ten years before Christ came among them all the Nephites knew that the prophecies of the prophets were true. I’ve lived long enough now to see how societies and groups can drastically and durably change in such a short period of time. When I was younger such a…
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Hunkered down
The Nephites had to take drastic actions to change their situation but it put them in a position to have power over the Robbers of Gadianton. When we are willing to do whatever it takes we can accomplish extremely difficult things and endure extremely difficult circumstances.
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Word salad
The epistle of Giddianhi is a complete word salad as he tries all at once to cajole, threaten, entice, convince, and manipulate the Nephites into surrendering. Any logical person reading it would have to conclude based on the multitude of contradictions and meaningless fluff that the only parts of it that should be taken seriously…
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Seek those things which are above.
This sounds like “think celestial.” I notice that Paul closes all his epistles with a list of this who are working with him.
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Suffer for the sake of Christ
I can hear the honor that Paul feels when suffering for the sake of Christ and which he hopes that the Philippians would feel any time they suffer for the sake of Christ and I realize that is exactly what the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi felt as they were being attacked by the Lamanites.
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Reordering society
The destruction that the Nephites faced a dozen years after the sign of Christ being born was so extreme that they’re whole society was restructured. Instead of being divided by Nephites and Lamanites they were divided by righteous and wicked with all the righteous Nephites and righteous Lamanites becoming united to fight against the wicked…
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An honest mistake
We can tell that those saying that it was no longer necessary to keep the law of Moses were making an honest mistake by the fact that they were soon convinced if the truth by those who understood the scriptures. If they had been trying to lead people astray they would have been resistant to…
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Then as now
The description of the people in the days of Samuel sounds much like what I see along people today. We are approaching a similar time.