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Before the Book of Mormon prophet Jacob popularized the terms Nephites and Lamanites to refer to the two Book of Mormon peoples, various names were used to refer to the peoples. >”Now the people which were not Lamanites were Nephites; nevertheless, they were called Nephites, Jacobites, Josephites, Zoramites, Lamanites, Lemuelites, and Ishmaelites.” (Jacob 1:13) So [...]

While reading last night in the Book of Mormon, I came across two interesting verses. “For behold, we will not have him to be our ruler; for it belongs unto us, who are the elder brethren, to rule over this people.” (2 Ne 5:3) “I, Nephi, did take my family, and also Zoram and his [...]

You know, reading through Isaiah can be intimidating. Downright slogging even. Which is why I was not looking forward with anticipation as I finished reading 1 Ne 19 a couple of weeks ago. I was confident my new method of scripture study would help me through the Isaiah chapters of the Book of Mormon. And [...]

While preparing for a lesson in a couple of weeks, I was doing a bit of research into Nephi’s character. From what I can tell, 1 Ne 2:16 is the first place we find out about why Nephi became the sort of person he did: I, Nephi, being exceedingly young, nevertheless being large in stature, [...]

You’ve probably heard of ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù if not played ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù a game called “word association”. The premise is someone says a word and the other person says the first word to come to mind. A lesser known variation involves restrict the word association to opposites only. For example, if someone said “cold”, I would probably say [...]

Big news this week for critics of the church in that the church has made a change in the introduction of the 2006 Doubleday edition of the Book of Mormon. (The introduction was added in 1981 by the then apostle Bruce R. McConkie) What it used to say: ?¢‚Ǩ?ìAfter thousands of years, all were destroyed [...]

In 1 Ne. 16:20, we read the following after Nephi broke his bow. It came to pass that Laman and Lemuel and the sons of Ishmael did begin to murmur exceedingly, because of their sufferings and afflictions in the wilderness; and also my father began to murmur against the Lord his God; yea, and they [...]

I came across something interesting tonight. After Nephi and his brothers pick up Ishamel and his family and start heading back to camp, there was a majority rebellion. [As] we journeyed in the wilderness, behold Laman and Lemuel, and two of the daughters of Ishmael, and the two sons of Ishmael and their families, did [...]

Rumour has it that Ernest Hemingway was given the challenge of writing a story in no more than six words. Here is the reported result: For sale: baby shoes, never used. This brought a lot of emotion and thoughts to my mind when I read it. It’s really simple, yet there so much imagery in [...]

I started reading the Book of Mormon for the umpteenth time a couple of weeks ago. I thought I’d try a new technique to see if I could get something more out of scripture study. I came across something interesting while reading about Lehi’s vision in the first chapter of 1 Nephi. Sort of like [...]