Tag: 3 Nephi

It seems to me that after the voice they had multiple times during the darkness that the people would not be very confused upon hearing a voice from heaven. This suggests to me that when Christ spoke in the darkness it was less subtle than when Heavenly Father spoke here at the land of Bountiful.

It is clear that this record is a testament for the reader because of things such as this invitation to search the scriptures and see if the things recorded here are a fulfillment of prophecy.

After silence while people must have contemplated the offer of healing and the hopeful message that they had been spared by being more righteous than others I have always wondered why this later statement by the Savior returned the people to wailing and grieving. I think it must be because they considered the many times…

Look at all the ways that Christ encourages those hearing him: He tells them they were spared because they were more righteous than those who were destroyed. He invites them to repent and promises to heal them. He promises eternal life to those who will come. He promises to receive any who come into Him.…

How did people feel hearing about the gate of different cities so that they knew what happened in various cities (not just their own) and why? The righteous must have felt justified to a degree and those who were less righteous must have felt the need to repent – and hopefully felt fortunate for the…

Despre knowing that the righteous were the most likely to be sorted, nobody could have gone through the terrible destruction in the Americas that accompanied the death of Christ and not feel that they were being punished.

I just realized that the sign if the birth of Christ would have been at our very best the beginning of the Nephite calendar year (which would have tracked with the Hebrew calendar). That being the case it makes even more sense that they would choose to number their years based on a great event…

It isn’t common to have peace among the people without righteousness but in this case it happened because the one thing they all agreed on was their hatred of a common enemy. That kind of peace is inherently fragile and short-lived. It will end in strife or people will repent (strife being the more common…

The only explanation for why it is people in positions of modest authority who enable secret combinations because of their desire for more power is that the audition if some power tends to breed or enhance a greater desire for power. This lust for power leads them to accept an “ends justify the means” mentality…

Mormon made a point to record the brief period of righteousness but it was very short-lived considering how dire the situation had been for the Nephites.