Tag: Moroni

The last message Moroni put in writing was to echo the words of his father regarding faith, hope, and charity and draw the connecting line between the lack of those virtues and the destruction that he witnessed among his people. He sees the district possibility of that happening again in the last days before everything…

I’ve never really thought about this phrase from Moroni: “there are different ways that these gifts are administered.” I had written it off as a way of saying that the various gifts were different but that’s really not it. It means that there are different avenues for the gifts to be bestowed. The gift of…

I think Moroni included the first episode of his father because we would need to understand the concept that repentance only applies to those who are accountable for their choices. The second episode was harder for me to understand its value to us. My belief is that it does us in detail how bad things…

Moroni is writing these words his father had taught decades after his father died—and Mormon has likely spoken them at least a decade before he died—and likely many years after Moroni himself had last had an opportunity to speak to any mortal about spiritual truths. I imagine that Moroni thought often of these words in…

I’ve noticed the symmetry between the sacrament prayers before but I just connected them to other priesthood ordinances that have symmetry. The prayer on the bread has the saints witnessing that they are willing to take the name of Christ upon themselves, always remember Him, and keep His commandments. The prayer on the water or…

I expect that Moroni felt that he was living like Ether had done when he was hiding in the cavity of a rock and witnessing the wickedness and destruction of the Jaredites while protecting himself.

I can only imagine the fortitude required to continue working when there was so little hope of success in bringing the people back to God.

There aren’t many places where the Book of Mormon directly and undeniably contradicts a belief that is widespread in modern Christianity but perhaps the most important instance if that is the clarity with which Mormon rejects the concept of infant baptism calling it a “mockery before God.” Not only that, but his words about those…

Humans tend to define angels as heavenly, immortal beings but we also describe mortals as angels when they do things (especially extraordinary things) that are consistent with what we would expect a loving God would want to do for us. Perhaps God makes no distinction between mortal and install servants. Perhaps angels are all who…