Tag: Alma 26
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"An instrument in the hands of God"
This is a short follow-up note on my series of posts on the phrase “stretch forth thine hand” (which begins here). One main lesson from that study was that prophets are messengers from God calling a covenant people to repent. As we learned from the account of Enoch (discussed in part 4), Enoch feels the…
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The strength of the Lord
Sometimes different verses of scripture can supplement each other wonderfully and there is really not much need to comment. I think this is the case with the three passages in the Book of Mormon that I will share here And it came to pass that we did go up in the strength of the Lord to battle. Now,…
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On time, eternity, squares and circles
The frequent reader of this blog has probably noticed that we are concerned with the original meaning of the scriptures, not just how we understand it today. Even though it is the same God and gospel, our worldview and language is very different from the ancient prophets. The Nephites became extinct and left no other…
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Ammon praising God
Much of Old Testament poetry is focusing on praising God, especially the Book of Psalms. Several of our hymns today are inspired by the language in ancient psalms. We don\’t have a similar book in the Book of Mormon, but sometimes we find these poetic exclamations of praise, like 1 Nephi 1:14 or 2 Nephi…
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"Good works" in association with "faith" and "repentance"
I noticed something interesting as I studied references to \”good works\” and connected the concept to covenants (part 1 and part 2). In many cases, the mention of \”good works\” happens in connection with faith and repentance. The table below demonstrates how these references relate to adjacent mentions of \”faith\” and \”repentance\” (or very similar…
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"Good works" as a covenant symbol, part 1
If you read this blog regularly, you know I’m really interested in finding covenant symbols. After studying Alma 5 recently, and then studying some related verses, I became convinced that “good works” and “works of righteousness” mean more than just helping an old lady across the street. “Good works” is a covenant symbol. I base…
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The harvest of the Sons of Mosiah
I was surprised to find that, except for quoting Isaiah, the word \’harvest\’ is only found twice in the Book of Mormon. The first time is in Alma 17:13, when the Sons of Mosiah are going on a mission to preach the gospel to the Lamanites. 13Â And it came to pass when they had arrived…
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Further thoughts on joy
I wrote about some things a found while studying about joy in the Book of Mormon. I noted how the worldly joy was described sometimes but only the \”spiritual\” joy could \”fill\” you or make your joy \”full\”. The verb \”fill\” has been discussed before and I included a reminder in my last post. A…
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Mercy is associated with…
I\’m studying references to \”mercy\” in the Book of Mormon. In my last post, I looked at 5 references to \”the arm of mercy.\” In this post, I\’ve compiled a list of attributes mentioned in association with mercy. I\’ve noticed that God\’s \”mercy\” is often mentioned in a list of other attributes. Before you look…
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Sources of tree symbolism in the scriptures
I have started to dig into tree-language in the Book of Mormon since there is a lot of it. I believe that there are two primary sources of this:Â The trees in the Garden of Eden, especially the tree of life Joseph of Egypt / The olive tree in Zenos\’ allegory Yes, Joseph and Zenos…
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