Tag: Helaman

Helaman 4When I read of the laws having been altered and corrupted it sounds like our day. We talk of our inspired constitution and fail to consider that our current laws are almost unrecognizable when compared to that great foundation.

Helaman 3I would not be surprised if the church today were going through the same thing as the Church of God recorded in Helaman 3:33 in that many of those who belong to the church beginning to be lifted up in pride because of their prosperity insomuch that they persecute those who humble themselves.

Helaman 1The king of the Lamanites was the son of Nephite dissenters and the leader of the Lamanite Armies was a Nephite dissenter who descended from a royal line (Zerahemla) that was not in power.

Helaman 16I am constantly amazed by the results of hard-hearted people. They convince themselves, no matter how great the evidence, that righteousness and religion are a hoax meant to trap them. Then they willingly walk into the traps of sin set by their enemy.

Helaman 14 – 15It’s exciting to recognize that Samuel is almost directly quoting king Benjamin when he teaches the Nephites about the Savior. Prophets quoting prophets is hardly unusual, but it does tell us something about which prophets they are most familiar with. That’s always fun to know.

Helaman 13I know why Mormon wrote what he did in the previous chapter. He wrote it because he knew that he was living in th time that Samuel had prophesied, not 400 years later, when the land and the people would be cursed because of their wickedness. All the things that he said that the…

Helaman 12This is written through the perspective of Mormon. All the things that he says of how the Lord may say something and it shall be done come from the perspective of one who has seen this happen among his people. That is why all the things the Lord can say to man are about…

Helaman 10 – 11{lost through autosave error} Nephi feels the weight of the fact that if the people are doomed to destruction it will be at his word.

Helaman 9{lost through autosave error}