Tag: Moroni

Somehow this chapter came together for me in a way it never had before. It seemed the entire chapter was a complete invitation to come unto Christ.

This without law become perverse – as both the Lamanites and the Nephites did – but there is a cat guild off difference between those who reject the law and love without it (culpable) and those who never had the law. The second group does not become quite so depraved without outside influence.

I remember the power I felt when I recognized the open truth that the office of the ministry of angels was to declare repentance. I never paid attention to the rest of it. Their office is also to fulfill and do the work of the covenant. Anything God had promised it is their office to…

How long did Moroni wait after finishing the record of Ether before he concluded that he could record more? He had expected that he would work no more and I wonder if he had deposited the plates at that time only to take them up again. That seems a more likely scenario than thinking that…

I never thought before if the detail in the provide that if we have faith we can do all things which are expedient to Him. The promise isn’t that we can do all things that are decent or acceptable, it is that we can do all things which are useful to His purpose and His…

Every since I recognized the depravity of what Mormon described here I have wondered why he wrote it and more importantly why Moroni included it. I know that Moroni included it to encourage us to try even against long odds of wickedness and also to give us a measuring stick of depravity. It occurs to…

How much time did Mormon and Moroni spend apart while they both lived? Mormon is hearing reports (not from Moroni) of what is going on around Moroni and then responding by letter to those reports. That suggests that they were frequently separated and morning closing suggests that those separations were of long durations at least…

It struck me how little Moroni write off his own words. He finished the book of Mormon with the words his father had instructed him to write. He wrote the book of Ether to capture the record of Ether, not his own words (although he included a few of those too). In the book of…

Moroni didn’t anticipate sanding any record of his own but when he found the opportunity he began by offering those things that he felt would be valuable to those who received the record. Look at chapters 2 thru 6 of Moroni you will find all the structural information for the primary activities of the church.…