Tag: Mormon

Mormon 2 The Nephites were fortunate that they chose Mormon to lead them at such a young age. I have. I doubt that he was the best choice. Even so, they must have been bereft of leaders that they should choose a 16-year old to lead them in battle. I also realized how confused things…

Mormon 1 As Mormon writes the history he is reading the sacred plates that are now in his charge and thus he is very familiar with the words of Samuel the Lamanite and also Abinadi.

Mormon 9I just realized how merciful it is that the resurrection of the unjust is later than the resurrection of the just. By making it later it gives them the maximum time possible to repent and rid themselves of as much sin as they are capable of abandoning. On the other hand, those who have…

Mormon 7 – 8Moroni wrote this closing part of the book of Mormon at a time when he still feared the possibility of being found by the Lamanites. They are continually at war and there is no place that is safe for anyone. By the time he finishes his record decades later that is probably…

Mormon 6I wonder how much of Mormon’s abridgment was done during his years as an idle witness, where he was probably having to move frequently for safety, and how much was done during this four years of gathering at Cumorah where he could be stationary to do the work.

Mormon 5Some people may assume that Mormon taking command again was the right choice because it was written in the Book of Mormon and he was a righteous man. I also suspect there may be some who might argue that it was the wrong choice because he had been told to stand as an idle…

Mormon 4If we are supposed to see wickedness as great as any in the history of the earth before the second coming of Christ then Mormon chapter 4 is proof that we are not there yet. Most hearts still do not delight in the shedding of blood continually although I’m sure some do already. In…

Mormon 3Will we have a period where we are not at war but where the possibility of destruction is apparent to all in which the final message inviting to repentance can be preached in clarity to the people? I don’t know that we will but we might.

Mormon 2One major reason that Mormon had a glimmer of hope was that he had no perspective then of what a less degraded society looked like to know how truly far his people had gone on the path to annihilation. By the time he took the plates at age 24 he had already been leading…

Mormon 1I wonder if Ammoron was uncomfortable or felt he was taking a chance by passing the responsibility for the sacred records off to a ten year old. If he wasn’t then it was either because he had great faith or else it was because Mormon stood out that much from among the rest of…