Tag: Moroni

It’s hard to imagine that the Lamanites took time to question a Nephite on if he would deny Christ but perhaps it was akin to what Captain Moroni had done generations earlier where any who would swear to uphold the title of liberty were allowed to live peaceably among the Nephites. For the Lamanites, if…

Moroni knows how to close a sacred record – by pointing the reader to Christ and inviting them to come unto Him.

There had been multiple times earlier in his life when Moroni thought he was done writing in the plates but this time he knew that he would have no more additions once he had buried them up

The men of the Lamanites and to an even greater degree the men of the Nephites were completely and totally depraved. The way Mormon writes I am left to wonder at the possibility that some of the women still retained at least a semblance of humanity amidst such universal depravity. Something about the way women…

I believe that Moroni included the letter from Mormon condemning infant baptism because I’m his visions of our day he saw for prevalent that idea had become in the Christian world.

It seems to be that the three Nephites might be considered angels because their mission and ministry is consistent with what we are told the ministry of angels is. Separately, I note that when Mormon says that man “must needs have {faith/hope/charity}” he seems to be indicating that man should seek for that thing. “If…

Even in the darkness of a society that was reaching toward their own anniahlation, the people had the capacity to recognize good as opposed to school. Although society as a whole was choosing evil, each person individually had the ability to choose good.

Perhaps it was the earlier inclusion of the very words of the baptismal prayer that pointed Moroni toward including the words of the sacramental prayers and the ordination of priesthood offices. Notice also that when people joined the church by baptism, not only did they make covenants to keep the commandments but the church was…

Moroni hadn’t expected to write more after the record of Ether. He is trying to make the best use of whatever time he may have.