Tag: Mormon

The Holy Ghost did not come upon any This really struck me because it feels like we aren’t to that point but it also feels like I could see it society today getting to the point where all but those well outside the mainstream (namely much more righteous than the mainstream of society) are unable…

Promote was that “whoso believeth Christ, doubting nothing,” could receive whatever they asked for. It is instructive to consider that whoso believeth in Christ would not ask anything to consume it on their lusts. They would ask for things such as the strength to not give in to temptation. That’s not too say that they…

Whatever Mormon did to minimize suffering from the war did little to help the Lamanites considering that even after the Nephites were destroyed they continued to have endless war and bloodshed among themselves. Vanquishing an enemy does not guarantee peace among a wicked and bloodthirsty people. Frankly, it occurs to me that we never see…

I wonder, by gathering his people for a final battle, what morning saved (or what he expected to accomplish). Did he save some misery by preventing years of smaller battles? Did he save the lives of many Lamanites who came in one crushing army instead of many smaller skirmishes? Did he save some innocence by…

I never noticed before what a perfect opportunity the Lord provided for the Nephites under the leadership of Mormon. He was preaching repentance during a 10-year period where they were not attacked but where they had a definite unifying purpose to keep them focused. Under comparable circumstances during the days if captain Moroni they were…

Mormon must have been very large in stature asking the neighbors for them to entrust him with their armies at such a young age. They were not sufficiently rights to promote him based on his spiritual stature.

I wonder what it was like for Mormon growing up and knowing at a young age that he had an adult task ahead of him.

I never before thought it the significance if the fact that Mormon wrote his final words to the Lamanites inviting them to accept Jesus and know their heritage after they had slaughtered his people in the final battle. This was not his final message before facing them, it was his message after they had left…

It is no wonder that the Nephites were so ready to have Mormon leading again. They believed that they had started losing to the Lamanites because he had quit leading. They were not ready to believe his words that he had quit leading because their wickedness had made victory an impossibility.