Tag: Omni
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22 February 2012
Omni 1 Somehow the people of Mosiah ended up with the record of the Nephites that had been kept by the kings as well as the record that was kept by the posterity of Jacob. I can’t say absolutely that this was because Mosiah was king of the Nephites before he fled with the righteous…
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4 February 2010
Omni – Words of MormonI find it interesting that Jarom said that the plan of salvation had already been revealed upon the plates and “what could I write more” and then his son, Enos said that the purpose of keeping the plates is to “preserve our genealogy.” It almost sounds like Jarom did not pass…
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28 May 2009
Omni 1I think that Chemish captures the loss of vision of the record keepers when he says that he saw what Amaron wrote “and he wrote it in the day that he delivered them unto me. And after this manner we keep the records.” I wonder if the brother of Amaleki was an ancestor of…
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27 September 2007
Omni – Words of MormonSometimes I am amazed at how little Chemish seems to have understood about the purpose and importance of the plates. I have to be reminded that he lived in a time of great wickedness and that he was faithful in preserving the record. Perhaps it is too easy to expect to…
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9 March 2007
Omni 1: 12-30We seldom make as much of this pattern of the Lord leading the righteous out from among the wicked. He is continually sifting them as if in a sieve. It also occurs to me this time that another reason for Mosiah to take his people at the time that the Lord had him…
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8 March 2007
Omni 1: 1-11I have always wondered about Omni’s declaration that he was not a righteous man. In my mind I thought “you were given charge of the plates, you must not have been very wicked – this must be more about humility than righteousness.” While I would not accuse him of being wicked, I am…