Tag: Moroni
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His rights of mercy
What great reward for Christ win by living a sinless life and performing an infinite atonement for mankind? He won the right to offer mercy to His brothers and sisters who were not perfect on their own merits.
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Black and white
Mormon makes everything black and white here—a man is evil or he is good. The truth is that this logic only works for snapshots in time. A man who was evil at one point can repent and become good. A man who is good can turn from God and become evil. The point of Mormon’s…
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The body of Christ
It seems that the purpose of the church is for us to do collectively for the children of God what Christ did individually throughout His earthly ministry.
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My brethren hunting me
How many people could take whatever time they had to try leaving something of value for those who have been actively hunting them? That is the action of a true disciple of Christ.
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How merciful the Lord hath been
It struck me differently tonight that the reason Moroni asks the reader to think on how merciful the Lord hath been to the children of men is less to say “look how the Lord has been involved in the affairs of mankind” and more to say “please notice this defining trait of your Father in…
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No grudging charity
It is possible to grudgingly do charitable things but not ready to grudgingly be kind or long-suffering. I don’t think a person can grudgingly be slow to anger. True charity of heart powered by love of God and it fellow men burns away the tendency towards giving a grudging gift.
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Details
While I find the writing in the book of Moroni to be very inspiring, especially those short early chapters about the details of how church ordinances and meetings were conducted, but i wonder if Moroni ever worried about how valuable those braid writings might prove to be.
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By the grace of God
Listen to the words of Christ, your Redeemer, your Lord and your God. Behold, I came into the world not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance; the whole need no physician, but they that are sick; wherefore, little children are whole, for they are not capable of committing sin; wherefore the curse of…
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Righteous men in wicked times
For the first time ever as I read Mormons demon on charity i realized that there surely were many righteous men gathered to hear him speak even during a time of as much wickedness as he lived through. There were many not unlike Mormon who mourned the wickedness of their society and sought personally to…
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Inside Moroni’s head
Moroni makes it clear that he had not expected to write more but when he realized that he would have the opportunity, what was going through his head in writing the ordinances and rituals of the church when he knew the church was extinct among his people? Was he thinking to provide a record for…