Tag: 1 Nephi

1 Nephi 3 Nephi days that He knows that the Lord prepares the way for men to be able to fulfill His commandments. I wonder what the saints in Missouri thought of that when they were unable to build a temple as they had been commanded. Of course there would be some consolation that they…

1 Nephi 1 – 2 Lehi is clearly seeing Christ in his vision but fails to identify His specific position. I suspect that is a testament to the lack of certainty in Jewish theology regarding the Messiah. Lehi saw one who was prominent among the servants of God but didn’t identify Him as THE ONE.…

1 Nephi 20 – 22 I know why this is the first piece of Isaiah that Nephi reads to his brothers, it is because they have been contending that the Jews at Jerusalem were righteous. In all likelihood they have also used the argument at t/wimes that as part of the house of Israel they…

1 Nephi 19 When Nephi days that he snagged the record of hid father in the other plates is he saying he engraved things that had previously been recorded on something other than plates or was he making chippies of things that were already on plates elsewhere? Certainly the words of Isaiah that he wrote…

1 Nephi 17 – 18 When they arrived in the land they called Bountiful Nephi may have assumed that they were in the promised land because they could go no further and it was so week provisioned. part of the reason for their murmuring may have been that Laman and Lemuel thought that Bountiful was…

1 Nephi 15 – 16 I wonder if by the time he made this record Nephi considered the perspective that his afflictions were great above all because he had foreseen the destruction of his people to be immature? That was how he felt as a young man having just had this great revelatory experience, but…

1 Nephi 12 – 14 The word “ordained” popped out at me. I know how we use it in the church but what does it mean generally? Looking it up, we use the first definition “to confirm holy orders upon someone” but the second definition captures the generic or secular meaning of the word “to…

1 Nephi 11 When Nephi desired to see for himself the things Lehi had seen the first question he was asked was weather he already believed. Had he been asking in order to believe rather than asking in order to understand more completely for himself he could not have received the answer. Lehi had a…

1 Nephi 8 – 10 The thing that Lehi did not seem to experience in his own journey was the iron rod. He went through the mist of darkness without knowing what it was but after praying he was able to behold the tree and partake of the fruit. We tend to gloss over lenis…

1 Nephi 6 – 7 We know that the lost pages of the Book of Mormon were called the Book of Lehi. I wonder if Nephi actually included the writings of his father as the beginning of the large plates because he says that he is not including the genealogy of his father on the…