Tag: 2 Nephi

2 Nephi 9 – 10 Jacob spoke in order that the people might rejoice in the words which had been spoken concerning the House of Israel; I’m curious about whether they were inclined to rejoice in the final condition of the covenant purple or whether they were inclined to morn that the covenant people required…

2 Nephi 6 – 8 The words of Isaiah that Jacob starts with are some of the same words of Isaiah that Nephi had already reminded his brothers of on  previous occasions. I wonder if some of the gentiles who honor the covenants of the Lord may, because of their particular desires and interests, be…

2 Nephi 5 I’m sure that Laman and Lemuel displayed no interest in the brass plates while Nephi was living with them so I wonder if they were the ones who complained among the remaining people that Nephi took the record or if that complaint against the Nephites originated with someone else – perhaps at…

2 Nephi 2 – 4 Jacob is less than thirty years old but he is obviously old enough that hid father has no need to instruct him in minutia. Instead, Lehi talks to Jacob as if he were a professor having a discussion with a doctoral student – as nearly a full peer. It also…

2 Nephi 1 As I read this I am thinking about the interesting interplay between influence and agency. I wonder whether Lehi and/or  Nephi could have done anything different to help Laman and Lemuel turn out more like Nephi. Even as I think that I know that ultimately there is am inert zone where Laman…

2 Nephi 31 – 33 What is the doctrine of Christ? It is the doctrine that Christ came to be our perfect example as well as our advocate with the Father so that He might extend mercy unto all those who willingly repent and take upon them His name and follow Him in being baptized…

2 Nephi 30 I love how Nephi carefully does not allow readers to assume that we can be separated into classes by birth and that one group would be treated more generously than another. Instead, any who will repent are the covenant people and any who will not repent will be treated accordingly.

2 Nephi 29 The Gentiles who cling to only their Bible are condemned because they chose to isolate themselves from the Jews and/or condemn them for killing their God rather than reaching out to them in the hopes of convincing them of the truth.

2 Nephi 28 I hadn’t connected the fact that Nephi taught against the doctrine that today God is not a god of miracles just as Moroni did at the end of the Book of Mormon.

2 Nephi 27 We certainly live in a day where we dream of eating only to find ourselves famished when we awaken. The sealed book that contains a revelation from the beginning to the end of the world is the sealed portion of the gold plates. I’ll bet that the declaration by two learned professors…