Tag: Mormon

Moroni recognizes that neither he, not his father, not their writings are without flaws. He understands that those flaws won’t be hidden from everyone who comes in contact with their work. He only asks that we do not condemn even when we spot imperfections. I have noticed many times various imperfections of character and language…

It is important to understand that God doesn’t change. If He were a changeable being we couldn’t rely on what we had previously known of Him.

I never noticed before how much these posting words of Moroni mirror the words of Alma as he set about to regulate the church after he gave up the judgment seat.

The price that Moroni observed in our day is the very thing driving our stagnation and bitterness.

 I had wondered if the Lamanites saw the remaining Nephites as no threat. I don’t know whether they actually felt threatened but whatever their reasons they choose to hunt down even the few Nephites who had escaped southward at the battle of Cumorah. Their goal want simply to neutralize a threat, it was too utterly…

Having failed in all his shirts to bring the people to repentance, Mormon make a final plea to their descendants after his people have been wiped out by their enemies.

I wonder if, after treading down the Nephites to the tune of killing about a quarter of a million of them in one last battle, the Lamanites believed that they had killed every one of them. Perhaps they did our perhaps they knew a few had survived but that there weren’t enough to ever be…

Mormon says that he only gave Moroni the abridged set of plates. Did Moroni later move the unabridged history? That may well be so at the time that he added the record of Jared.

Mormon writes a message that should comfort the remnant of the seed of Lehi – their trials with the imaging gentiles were known in andante but the Lord has not forgotten His covenant with them. To the gentiles Mormon offers a timely warning – things may be good now but if they don’t repent all…

Mormon didn’t want to write the details of the depravity of his people but he knew that he must record something of their wickedness for their posterity and those who would have the land in the latter days.