Truth tastes good This is good doctrine. It tastes good. I can taste the principles of eternal life, and so can you. They are given to me by the revelations of Jesus Christ; and I know that when I tell you these words of eternal life as they are givenContinue Reading

Alma said unto him: … All things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator (AlmaContinue Reading

By Joseph Smith’s day the idea of an antichrist had evolved into the idea of an Anti-Christ. The word antichrist is the Bible term for the false teachers in the Church who taught a false Christ instead of a true Christ. The Greek preposition anti, roughly translated, means instead of.Continue Reading

The Amulonites are descendants of the wicked priests of King Noah as discussed in Mosiah 19.10-12. These wicked priests, in about 142 B.C., kidnap the daughters of the Lamanites and create new families. Sometime between 142-122 B.C. these families are integrated into Lamanite society, and Mormon emphasized that these AmulonitesContinue Reading

Waters of Sebus/What Insanity is This? – Hugh Nibley The whole affair at the waters of Sebus must strike anyone as very strange; I always thought that it was rather silly until the other day when I gave it a moment’s thought. All the Lamanites would drive their flocks toContinue Reading

Resurrection in the Book of Mormon The Book of Mormon has been under attack since the day it was published. One of the things it has been criticized for is its teaching of the resurrection, something that some have deemed to be anachronistic. In the realm of Biblical scholarship itContinue Reading

Metonymy Gordon Thomasson lays out some excellent arguments for metonymic naming in the Book of Mormon. I have written elsewhere regarding the punning taking place in the Book of Mormon as well as in the Bible. One possible example of metonymy is the term Mosiah. Names in scripture certainly conveyedContinue Reading

One of the major themes of the book of Mormon as well as the book of Alma is that the wars that take place first begin with a war of words and ideologies. The book of Alma begins with a war of words and ends with major bloodshed. The sameContinue Reading