Tag: Mormon

I would imagine that the destruction of the Nephites was on such a massive scale that archeologists have found out will find evidence of it, even if they don’t make a connection to this story. It might also be preserved in oral tradition. The one wrinkle is that the destruction of the Jaredites was also…

When the Lamanites sacrificed Nephite women and children the Nephites were angry enough to drive them back. In doing so they provoked the Lamanites to take time and gather a combined army that the Nephites were never again able to drive back (who then sacrificed Nephite women and children again).

 Nephites had at least two years to heed the call to repentance before Mormon was instructed to stand aside and idly witness their wickedness and pending destruction.

I think the Lord intended that the Nephites should be prepared for the invitation to repent. That was why He would have Mormon not preach until after they had nearly been destroyed and then had been preserved. When He told Mormon to call the people to repentance He did so knowing that they would never…

 Mormon must have felt under-qualified to lead his men as they displayed their fear when faced with the attacking Lamanites. He certainly must have despaired when he saw how they persisted in their wickedness despite the destruction that they faced.

 must have been very frustrating for Mormon to be unable to preach after he had tasted and known the goodness of Jesus for himself.

I get the impression that Mormon began keeping his personal record of events before he had the chance to read what had been written by Ammaron and others before him – I see him repeating some information that was in the earlier record.

Perhaps one reason for Mormon to include such descriptions of his experience among a people ripe for destruction is so that we can recognize what such ripeness looks like. We talk about our societies becoming ripe but the evidence suggests that we have a ways to fall yet.

When Mormon was writing to the remnant of the seed of Lehi who would eventually have his words, was he also thinking of what his words might mean to any gentiles who would also have that record?