Tag: Helaman

This time that the Nephites prospered and spread into the land northward likely created, over time, several distinct groups who operated independently in the future. I feel confident that Native American culture and nationalities were much more complex based on the Book of Mormon than we often assume because the record was taken from one…

How is it that the servant of Helaman was out by night in disguise to learn the secret plans of the band of Gadianton? Did they assume that the murderer of Pahoran would strike again? With the knowledge that Helaman had of the record of the Jaredites he may have had reason to expect that.

Coriantumr had success against the Nephites because he did what they hadn’t expected. Unfortunately for him his success ended once they figured out his intention and surrounded his army.

Did Samuel feel that his mission had failed when the five years after he testified the people remained primarily wicked?

How did the Nephites feel about Samuel’s description of them as the more blessed people among the seed of Lehi? How did they feel about the promised that he said we’re eating to the Lamanites because of the wicked traditions of their fathers? Some might have concluded that the Lamanites were given a free pass…

I wonder if Samuel the Lamanites saw the sign of the birth of Christ? Did he live at least 5 more years so that he could witness in mortality the sign of which he prophesied which surely he longed with all his heart to see?

I think I have previously noted the parallels between Samuel the Lamanite being called back as he was leaving the city like Alma had been called back after leaving Ammonihah. I don’t believe I’ve previously noted that Nephi had the same experience of being called to prophesy to the people as he was leaving for…

I think Mormon saw great parallels between the people in the time of Nephi around 80 years into the reign of the judges and the people of his own lifetime. That is why he broke into the history to point out the pattern that these people were so clearly demonstrating.

I have always wondered why Nephi put to much more effort into his prayer to end the famine than he had into the prayer to begin it. I realized today that the reason was that he was so much more eager to see the famine end than he was too request it. I had assumed…

When the Lord speaks of how Nephi had proceed himself faithful we should consider what we know. Nephi served as a righteous Chief Judge until the people could not be governed righteously. He then gave up the rental authority to decor his time to preaching repentance. He not only taught among the Nephites but among…