Tag: Helaman

When the people find their Chief Judge murdered they conclude that God is so mindful of them that He helped them catch the murderers rather than concluding that they are so wicked that they have slowed secret societies to grow among them to murder and rob. I also find it interesting that they treat Nephi…

It is amazing to me that the judges could argue that it was impossible for the people of Nephi to lose their cities considering that it had only been a few years since the Lamanites too most of their possessions and retained half their lands – including Zerahemla. Beyond that it is ironic that they…

Nephite laments that the people were easy to be entreated when Nephi same to the promised land. As he did so, the Lord blessed him by gathering people to hear his cry for repentance.

The idea that material wealth is a sign of divine favor is enticing because it appeals to the natural man. It is effective because it is not without a grain of truth – God does bless with material blessings those who are living righteously. It is destructive because it is so easily reversed where instead…

Nephi and Lehi prove what Alma had said decades earlier about the preaching of the word of God having a more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword or anything else that happened to them.

The story of the Nephites nearly being overrun after Helaman had died suggests a period where the Nephites were without rudder as a people. With no direction as a society they fell into treating others poorly such that there were repeated dissensions. With no rudder in our home we fell into chaos to the point…

The evidence of prosperity and peace don’t line up precisely with the undercurrents of pride and wickedness. Things that weren’t known until later started and grew before the people could recognize and react to them.

I suspect that even Kishkumen didn’t know that Gadianton had planned for the possibility of his failure. Had he been caught alive Gadianton want going to count on him keeping his oath of secrecy (even though he would certainly enforce it) therefore he planned an escape in case Kishkumen failed.

Moronihah miscalculated in expecting the Lamanites to attach in the borders. If Coriantumr had been wise he would have attacked Zerahemla as he did but he miscalculated in assuming that the strongest areas were the capital parts of the land. Had he been wise he would have avoided getting himself surrounded by the bulk of…

Why is it that those who would force others, on pain of death, to believe as they do are the first to claim that they are being manipulated and coerced by those who they are trying to force? The wicked Nephites claimed that the leaders of the church were forcing them to follow even though…