Category: Scripture Notes
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Incredible detail
Nephi foretold the interaction with Seantum with enough detail to ensure that even skeptical people while have to conclude that he was not acting in concert with Seantum in murdering the Chief Judge.
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The only thing that matters
Paul can’t hammer home enough that things like circumcision are meaningless after Christ has come. The only thing that matters with the advent of the new covenant is the relationship with Christ. Where we came from (or are coming from) is unimportant so long as we are headed toward Christ and accepting Him as the…
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There are two kinds of people
Paul wants us to understand that there is not Greek and Jew or Jew and Gentile. There is not bond and free or male and female. There is only, for all spiritual purposes, in Christ and not in Christ.
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Ulterior motives
The judges who had heard Nephi prophesy were not interested in the truth but they were very interested in making a case against Nephi. If they had not seen an opportunity to make Nephi look guilty they might have instead ignored the five who had been sent and left them to take the fall or…
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Proving his words
The reason that Nephi was able to prophesy about the murder of the chief judge was to prove the rest of his words just as he had testified that the destruction of Jerusalem was evidence of the prophecies of Christ that Jeremiah had made.
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Our day
The more I read this part of the book of Helaman the more it reminds me of our current day. Party of that night be more recognition but another part is that we are becoming more and more like these times among the Nephites. It is becoming increasingly common that those in positions of power…
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Metastasized corruption
The Gadiantons spread and corrupted the majority of the Nephites in a very short period of time. When I read that it tells me it how quickly the GOP went from having unstable/corrupt elements among them to being widely and openly committed to supporting the obviously corrupt among them. I wouldn’t say that their corruption…
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Role reversal
When the Lamanites became more righteous than the Nephites and the Nephites were rejecting the invitation to repent they were continuing to harbor accommodate toward the Lamanites but the people of the church removed in the righteousness of the Lamanites. Could we one day see a reversal where the image of righteousness in America is…
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False Apostles
Paul talks about false Apostles, men who come preaching the name of Christ but not the doctrine of Christ. It seems clear that their motivation is to build up their own popularity and influence among Christians by invoking the name of Christ. This sounds like Tim Ballard today (to use a present example of someone…
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Commended by the Lord
Paul makes a good point that those who comment themselves are not approved, only those who are commended by the Lord.