Tag: 3 Nephi

After the shock and indelible impression left by incomprehensible destruction the people were treated to another shock in hearing the voice of Christ explaining what had been done and why as well as inviting them to receive healing from Him. I don’t know that the second shock would compensate for the first but it would…

I think of the massively traumatic public events of my life (9/11 and the pandemic shutdown being the biggest) and I realized that this great tempest at the death of Christ was more impactful than both of those put together. The people just have known immediately that their whole world had changed and they probably…

It seems a consistent and telling characteristic that those who enter into secret combinations that they seek to subvert justice, not simply escape it. Trying to get away with murder is one thing but condemning the innocent while ensuring that the guilty go unpunished is a more telling pattern.

It’s interesting to realize that a mere ten years before Christ came among them all the Nephites knew that the prophecies of the prophets were true. I’ve lived long enough now to see how societies and groups can drastically and durably change in such a short period of time. When I was younger such a…

The Nephites had to take drastic actions to change their situation but it put them in a position to have power over the Robbers of Gadianton. When we are willing to do whatever it takes we can accomplish extremely difficult things and endure extremely difficult circumstances.

The epistle of Giddianhi is a complete word salad as he tries all at once to cajole, threaten, entice, convince, and manipulate the Nephites into surrendering. Any logical person reading it would have to conclude based on the multitude of contradictions and meaningless fluff that the only parts of it that should be taken seriously…

The destruction that the Nephites faced a dozen years after the sign of Christ being born was so extreme that they’re whole society was restructured. Instead of being divided by Nephites and Lamanites they were divided by righteous and wicked with all the righteous Nephites and righteous Lamanites becoming united to fight against the wicked…

We can tell that those saying that it was no longer necessary to keep the law of Moses were making an honest mistake by the fact that they were soon convinced if the truth by those who understood the scriptures. If they had been trying to lead people astray they would have been resistant to…

Mormon is not showing to his people at all but instead here he is speaking directly to those who will read his words long after his death. Will we hear it or dismiss it?