Tag: Omni
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Amaleki’s brother
Amaleki mentions that he had a brother among those who followed Zeniff. I wonder if he would have given the plates to his brother if he had stayed behind.
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Loss and restoration
The series of writers in Omni continue the trend that was becoming apparent in Jarom where they kept the record as a family charge but seemed to be losing sight of the original purpose then with Amaleki as he ran out of room on the plates (and apparently posterity as well) we see a glimmer…
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Losing focus
I started thinking that the time of the books of at least Jarom and Omni are like the latter part of the Old Testament where the writing is the prophets seem to be more spread out temporally and geographically. They are much less historically concentrated like 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, and Jacob or like Exodus,…
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Times without vision
We see the keepers of the record in Omni go through a period where they had lost the vision of the small plates. The held them by rote with little to no concept of why. I’ve seen periods of my personal life that follow the same pattern. We can get stuck in a rut and…
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Preserving the record
Possibly by the time of Omni but certainly by the time of his son the keepers of the small plates of nativii saw their job as primarily to keep their genealogy and ensure that the record was not lost. They mostly did very little to add to the record.
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RECORDS vs records
I wonder about the stone record of Coriantumr. I suspect he wrote that record himself while living with the Mulekites and they couldn’t read his record. How complete was his record compared to the plates of Ether which were sacred? I think an illustration of the difference in records can be seen by comparing the…
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The other Nephites
What happened to the Nephites who were unwilling to follow Mosiah when he was commanded to leave the land of Nephi? Were they overwhelmed by the Lamanites or just assimilated.
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Cross references
I’m sure that the full genealogy of Zerahemla was recorded in the large plates of Nephi and had in the lost pages of manuscript. I also realized that Mormon likely saw a reference in the large plates to Amaleki delivering the small plates to Benjamin and then he went searching for that record among the…
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Unfocused
It seems that the keepers if the small plates lost perspective for a time on their purpose. I also suspect that Amaron has no children (or maybe no sons) which would explain why he gave the records to his brother. Unlike Amaleki we aren’t told explicitly.
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Our attitudes about judgement are telling
The righteous are more likely to welcome judgement, this if we are righteous we are more likely to welcome the chance to be judged by Christ. (This doesn’t hold true for those who are preparing beating themselves up because they may expect the same from the Lord.)