David Journal

Tag: Mosiah

  • One path of escape

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    The people of Limhi considered every possible option to escape their bondage and could only find one way out. I feel like I am surrounded by financial Lamanites — they aren’t all hostile, just as the Lamanites surrounding the people of Limhi weren’t all actively hostile, but they are impediments to the freedom being justly…

  • A persistent irritant

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    It is interesting to consider the many ways over many years that the priests of Noah caused trouble for the rest of their Nephite brethren. All of the different ways stem from their pride and their conviction that normal rules didn’t apply to them. In chronological order:

  • Seek to understand

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    I’m sure that when Limhi heard the reason that the Lamanites had come to stack his people he was very sympathetic to their motivations. I’ll bet that he had a pretty good working relationship with the king of the Lamanites after that despite the fact that their people were consistently antagonistic towards each other.

  • The sons of Mosiah

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    While after their conversion the sons of Mosiah would not accept the kingdom I wonder if part of their motivation in trying to tear down the church was a fear that their father would turn most power over to the leaders of the church do that there would be very little power or influence left…

  • Forging a shared identity

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    When the people of Limhi and the people of Alma came to Zerahemla they did not all have a shared identity. The people of Zerahemla stood in a separate body from the people of Nephi. Mosiah had the history of Limhi and Alma read to everyone which undoubtedly helped them see how they all had…

  • The forces of the king were reduced

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    I wonder how the forces of the king were reduced. Had they been reduced through fighting with the Lamanites? Had they been reduced because Noah was convinced (through hubris) that they could do with fewer guards?  Had they been reduced by some of them being converted by the preaching of Alma (which could also explain…

  • A sacred space

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    I want to create a place like the place of Mormon that is beautiful in the eyes of my family where they come to the knowledge of God in their hearts and feel of his love. It could have any number of characteristics but I like to think that it shares the fountain of pure…

  • A wild flock

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    Abinadi compares the people of Noah to a wild flock. A wild flock is one that either has no shepherd or that has rejected the direction of their shepherd. In either case, they have no protection from the wild beasts that would harass and hunt them. We will see more and more of that same…

  • Persisting as natural man

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    This description from Abinadi sounds just like Alex 5 …He that persists in his own carnal nature, and goes on in the ways of sin and rebellion against God, remaineth in his fallen state and the devil hath all power over him.… 12 Having gone according to their own carnal wills and desires; having never…

  • Abinadi before Amulek

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    I never realized before that when Amulek was challenged for saying that God would not redeem His people IN their sins and he responded that he could not deny the word of God and that God could not redeem those who remained unclean Abinadi had Said the same thing before Noah and his priests. I…