Tag: Words of Mormon
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The Lord worketh in me
Any true disciple of Christ would be willing to say that the Lord works in them to do His work and would hope to be able to say it. I hope that He is working in me and will work in me to save some lives and build up Zion in whatever ways He can…
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Many dissentions
Mormon mentions that there were many dissentions to the Lamanites in the days of king Benjamin. I’ve never paid attention to that before but it makes me realize that there was a lot of mixing between the Nephites and the Lamanites over their history. In fact, when we add that fact with the recognition that…
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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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Proof in imperfection
The things that make the least sense are evidence that the Book of Mormon was not an invention. If Joseph Smith had been inventing it He would not have added the complexity of dual records for the same time period, let alone multiple voices/writing styles. This was clearly a compilation of works brought forward in…
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Halfway
I’m not sure if this is important it significant but i realized that the end of the small plates is very nearly the halfway point in Nephite history—it comes about 450 years into the 1000 years of history covered by the Book of Mormon.
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Always a struggle
It seems consistent that before peace and righteousness can be established for any person or any people they must endure struggles to rest and try them and to prepare them to live in harmony with the gospel of Christ. If we know no struggle we can’t be one with Him.
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Other people
I wonder if part of the reason that the Lamanites were almost always much more numerous than the Nephites is that they were joined at times by people who were not descendents of Lehi or Ishmael. Perhaps there were many smaller groups of people who didn’t always get along but when that were allied to…
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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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Sans context
We often think of the peaceful city of Zerahemla after King Benjamin have his speech and forget that there was little one in the lifetime of Benjamin. The bill of his life was spent dealing with conflicted and establishing righteousness. Only at the end was there a foundation of righteousness. Most of the peace that…
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Learning as he went
Mormon was likely learning about the records as he went. He didn’t search among the records because he thought he remembered something from Brit, he went searching because Benjamin recorded receiving the small plates from Amaleki.