Tag: Mormon

Mormon 4 Mormon records that there had never been so great wickedness among the House of Israel as were among the posterity of Lehi at this time. The Jaredites were not if the House of Israel. If they had been that statement might not have been true. I suspect that the atrocities of the Nephites…

Mormon 3 Mormon had been leading the Nephite armies for 35 years by the time the Lord invited him to offer the people a final opportunity to repent. Within 25 years of that the people had been completely eliminated. The idea that Mormon first reserved command of the Nephite armies because other leaders refused to…

Mormon 2 Mormon was too young (11 years old) the last time the people had been fighting with the Lamanites to have demonstrated any skill in battle. How did the people choose such a young leader if he was unproven? Did any the older men refuse to lead? Did established military figures in their society…

Mormon 1 Why did Ammoron want Mormon to wait until he was 24? I unextended wanting him to wait but why 24? It would not surprise me to learn that Mormon wrote down his observations rather than simply remembering them until he retrieved the plates.

Mormon 9 Are all assignments to kingdoms of glory at the judgement day fixed forever or can people choose to live the law of another kingdom and subsequently be moved to that kingdom? If any of the assignments can be changed, are any of them fixed? As I think about it I feel that each…

Mormon 7 – 8 When Nephi speaks of the two records confirming each other he speaks as if those who believe the record of Judah should find it possible to believe the record of Joseph. When Mormon speaks of it here it sounds like those who are the seed of Joseph would recognize their history…

Mormon 6 Mormon says that they had hope to gain some advantage over the Lamanites and also that he knee it was the last struggle of his people. Perhaps there were some Nephites who believed they could prevail at Cumorah but Mormon wrote to the king of the Lamanites simply to prevent his people from.…

Mormon 5 Mormon knew that the struggle was futile but he chose to lead again either because he wanted to help however he could for the sake of those few Nephites that he knew were still righteous (like his son) or else simply because he had come to love the Nephites despite their wickedness during…

Mormon 4 Every time I read verse 11 here that iris impossible for tongue to describe the scene of carnage among the Nephites and the Lamanites I think of the description Mormon wrote to Moroni as recorded in Moroni 9 and think he did a pretty good job there of describing it. I honestly think…

Mormon 3 Even after signing a treaty to divide the lands Mormon knew that there would be no lasting peace. Like captain Moroni, he employed his people in building their defenses even though the Lamanites were not currently attacking. This might very well have been the time when Moroni was born. The way the Nephites…