Tag: 1 Nephi

I was wondering why Nauvoo kept going on about his parents being sick near into death while he was bound by Laman and Lemuel but then i realized it was part of a larger effort to show the reader all the things that had failed to sway his brothers from their course against him. That…

While traveling in the wilderness the people of Lehi grew strong and able to beat their burdens. After they had been settled in the land of Bountiful for a while they considered the with that Nephi undertook tô be too much of an imposition.

I wonder if Lehi would have been receptive to bringing Ishmael with him before Zoramite had joined them. I’m confident that Lehi knew Ishmael and might have wondered about Ishmael having more daughters to marry than Lehi had sons. Once Ishmael came back when the boys retrieved the records Lego might have recognized Ishmael as…

It sounds like the brothers of Nephi we’re open to learning from him after he came back from his vision of the tree of life. They asked follow-up questions and do not seem to have challenged what he taught them at that time.

Everyone who is not striving to be in the church of the lamb is, by default a part of the great and abominable church.

The great and abominable church is not confined to a single organization or even to religious organizations. It can operate through any entity which serves its purposes. It was certainly making use of the various councils that were held in the years before the structures of catholicism were solidified. That is when plain and precious…

I never considered before how the visions regarding the future if his people also served to reinforce the symbolic imagery from the vision of the tree of life. That must have been powerful for Nephi.

It occurred to me that the angel was more involved with explaining things to neighbor than the record here states. Nephi probably only wore down the most important interactions with the angel but he might well have been answering questions that Nephi had as he sought to understand what he was seeing. For example, did…

After reading the records in the brass plates Lehi was able, through the spirit of prophecy, to tell his family everything that would happen in Jerusalem from his time until the resurrection of Christ.

How often does the Lord instruct us to do things without explaining the reasons behind the thing we have been asked to do? I know that sometimes we don’t have the capacity to understand the reasons but I think that there is also a principle that we need at times to act beyond our understanding…