Day 10: Book of Mormon, Fourth Nephi & Mormon Let’s begin with a meditation on the image below from the Latter-day Saint website. It describes a scene in 4 Nephi where the people become wicked again and split away from the Church. Notice who is wicked? Notice who they are plotting against? Do you see […]
Day 9: Book of Mormon, Third Nephi Here it is, the climax of the book, Jesus appears! After several chapters regarding his birth and death and resurrection. Part of his post-resurrection tour brings him to America and he ministers to the Nephites. The question I have is this: Why’d he only do a two continent […]
Day 8: Book of Mormon, Helaman I’m excited to get to Helaman. Not because I got to read Helaman, but because the next book is where Jesus appears to the people of North America after his resurrection. I think a majority of non-Latter-day Saints, if they know anything about the Book of Mormon, think it […]
Day 2: Book of Mormon, Second Nephi The tone of the Book of Mormon shifts considerably in Second Nephi. Lehi, Nephi, and their families reach the promised land (America) with the help of Liahona, the divine brass ball. Lehi, sensing he is near death, launches into several chapters of blessing and guidance. He asks his […]
Day 1: Book of Mormon, First Nephi And it came to pass…and it came to pass…and it came to pass…and it came to pass… I’ll go ahead and be glib about the history of the Book of Mormon, though I mean no disrespect. An angel appeared to Joseph Smith and told him about brass plates […]