Tag: 3 Nephi

It is amazing how fast the people returned from the brink of destruction to enter into secret combinations against the law. I see us being that unstable.

We don’t think of 500+pages as particularly small but considering the scope of history being covered this truly is a very small record. It should not surprise us that absolutely proving archeologically proves elusive from such a minute and specific record. This record was not made with the intent to historically prove the history of…

We can look at the Nephite strategy and tactics against the Gadiantons and we can know that they succeeded. With that historical distance we can recognize that various moves as wise or assured but how did the neighbors feel? Were they confident in the plans they laid? (There were reasons they could view them with…

We already live in a time when people openly good evil and evil good.

Will we ever face a time when wickedness is so rampant and overt that society will be politically or socially restructured to survive it? I’ve never thought to ask that question before.

As the time came for the sign given by Samuel the people became more starkly divided between the believers and the unbelievers. I think we are and will see the same stark divisions asking people in our day.

There are two requirements for a church to be the church of Christ: it must be called in His name and it must be built upon his gospel. One out of two is not enough. I love that Christ assured His disciples that their church was built upon His gospel when He taught them this…

I can only imagine what else Christ taught the people and how that teaching enabled them to have peace for over a century.

When Christ left the people knew that he would return the next day and they gathered together as many people as possible to hear him that next day—many more than had been there the first day. Christ did not come first thing in the morning. He came late enough that the disciples had time to…

A few things came to me that I had not noticed previously (or some just came more impactfully). First, the way Jesus talks about the other sheep that he still needs to visit seems to digest that there was no guarantee of them leaving a record or otherwise being known. He told the neighbors about…