Tag: 3 Nephi

3 Nephi 6When it speaks of the church being broken up, I believe that means that the congregations were broken up according to their classes. The rich met with the rich and looked down upon the poor. The poor met with the poor and envied the rich. I had never noticed before that high priests…

3 Nephi 5It is amazing to me that every living Nephite knew that Christ had come and yet within 8 years the wickedness among them would be so great that their government was utterly destroyed. It is interesting that Mormon notes that the church formed by Alma at the waters of Mormon was the first…

3 Nephi 4I wonder how the Nephites were able to gather 7 years worth of provisions on such short notice – that certainly does not play to the image of a subsistence lifestyle in an agrarian society. I guess we have ample evidence that it was not a simple agrarian culture, but I thought that…

3 Nephi 3I wonder (although I expect that within my lifetime I will see clearly) what life would be like when the unquestionably wrong and evil are so brazen as to not simply demand that they be accepted as good or normal, but would actually demand that the population as a whole should join in…

3 Nephi 29 – 30It is sad in some ways to get to this point in the Book of Mormon because aside from one chapter of generic description of a Zion society the remainder of the book is largely focussed on wicked people marching steadily to destruction. (Maybe this is just a normal post-climax feeling…

3 Nephi 28I never noted before that the Nephite disciples were not given their promises during the initial 3 days of the Savior’s ministry. I would expect that John and the tree Nephites have been instrumental in preparing nearly every land that has received the gospel – if not every one. After all, it was…

3 Nephi 27Christ had told the people that He wanted no more disputations among them – that is why the disciples were so intent on ending the disputation by learning what He wanted the church to be called. Also, the naming of the church was probably not very important until there was a visible minority…

3 Nephi 26I wonder if any writing in the Americas with sacred content has been discovered through archeology? Certainly not the concentrated work of the Book of Mormon, but some scrap that has not been translated, or not translated correctly? Just a thought. Those three days of conference with the Savior must have left an…