- Nephi must have really thought about this before beginning his record, because verse 1 says sooo much! Each of you think in your own minds...if you had a piece of paper divided into two columns and at the top of each was written: afflictions in my day...and... having been highly favored of the Lord....what would you write under each of those? Think about it. That was a very uplifting thing for me to do.
- In 1Ne. 1:2....I had never realized the Brass plates were also written in Egytian (Mos. 1:4) Later Nephi mentions that he would really be able to explain himself better if he could write in Hebrew, but because it (Hebrew) takes up so much room and it is difficult writing on plates, they write in the "language of the Egyptians". Now imagine if they had had to write it in English, because 1 page of Hebrew = 15 pages of English...and yet the HEBREW took up way too much room! Amazing!
- I love 1Ne 1: 20, where it talks about tender mercies. The manual is very good on ALL of these chapters.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Chapter 2 1Nephi 1-5
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Yay! I got my manual in the mail a couple days ago, so I'm ready to read! I started this morning on Chapter 1 and I liked how the introduction encouraged us to read and think why Mormon would have included that for our day- then after reading the very first verse in the BOM, I thought it's not a coincidence that the family is established with a righteous mother and a father. In verse 4 the manual explains that the setting in Nephi's life and the people in Jerusalem are very wicked, immoral and corrupt. Both the people and the government, again, very comparable to our day. Maybe living in LA makes me extra aware of all the wickedness going on, but I thought it was interesting that the BOM starts out in a similar setting that we live in now. It makes sense since it was written specifically for our day! Ok, I'm going to go spell check this before I post this comments, since you all are going reading this :)
ReplyDeleteIt's funny, because even Moroni said that he wished that they could write in Hebrew, and there would be less imperfections in his writing. Anyways, what I really liked in this study was how Bruce R. McConkie said that "If (NEPHI)had failed to get the plates, then that meant God had failed. And because God does not fail, it was incumbent upon Nephi to get the plates or lay down his life in the attempt>" This showed me total faith! It was a huge example to me showing what a strong, faithful servant Nephi was in doing God's will.
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