Tag: 4 Nephi

I never considered the implications of the fact that Amos kept the records for 84 years. If he kept them from the time he was 16 that would mean he lived 100 years. (I picked that age to get the round number.) That suggests very long lifespans during this period of righteousness.

I have always felt that Nephi who kept the record in 4th Nephi was not the same as Nephi the chief disciple of Christ but I also felt that I couldn’t prove it. Today I realized the proof. Neigh the record keeper died decades after the last of the original disciples we said to have…

I wonder why, about all their prosperity, sons people (and eventually almost all) choose to rebel addict the truth. Was it because the requirements of discipleship were harder than they expected?

I wonder as I read that the people who began to call themselves Lamanites willfully rebelled when miracles were being openly wrought by the disciples of Jesus but as I think about it I regularize that i may yet see similarly willful rebellion in my lifetime.

When Christ came he appointed one of his disciples to administer the sacrament. Obviously that authority was given to others at some point as eventually there were those who administered the sacrament to some who were unworthy of it.

This period of rebuilding the civilization with unfettered expansion if the gospel would have been a fascinating time to live through.

We often sums that all the people were members of the church after Christ came among them but the truth of that we don’t know that. We know that the people were all righteous and had all things in common among them but we aren’t told that they all joined the church. Only that when…

I don’t think I’ll ever understand why the people would build up the secret society of Gadianton after they had lives for two generations of complete peace. The only clue is that they had knowingly rejected Christ so there was no line that wouldn’t be willing to cross.