Midterm 2 Flashcards
Jacob 1
The people began to indulge themselves in pride and sexual sin
Jacob takes Nephis place as spiritual leader
Jacob gathered everyone to the temple, after ‘obtaining his errand from the lord’
Jacob 2
Pride and Sexual sin
-‘one being is as precious in God’s sight as another’
‘before you seek for riches, seek ye for the kingdom of God’
Holland quote on sexuality
“The body is an essential part of the soul…In exploiting the body of another-which means exploiting his or her soul-one desecrates the Atonement of Christ, which saved that soul.”
Jacob 3
Lamanite skin; doesn’t mean black skin is evil, in fact racism is for pigs. just no
Jacob speaks like lehi, ‘shake yourselves that ye may awake from the slumber of death’
Jacob 4
The story of Abraham and Isaac is a similitude of God and his only begotten son
be reconciled to God through the atonement of Christ
Jacob 5 summery
allegory of the olive tree-heavenly father grieves when he loses his children
allegory is a declaration of divine love-holland
Zenos, appeared here not in OT
Jacob 5 1-14
Israel falls into apostasy
‘take away many of the young tender branches’
‘graft’ in the branches of the wild olive tree’
Jacob 5 15-28
scattering of israel
‘wild olive branches begin to bear fruit’
you can overcome ‘poor soil’
25- branch planted in ‘good spot of ground’/ ‘part of tree’ is good, ‘other part of the tree’ wild
jacob 5 29-51
Great apostasy
30- ‘all sorts of fruits’ ‘none which is good’ no church on earth can provide ‘eternal life’
44- nephites came after jaredites had been destroyed
49-50- justice; burn it/ mercy; spare it longer
Jacob 5 52-77
Restoration/ Gathering
take the scattered branches back to ‘whence they came’
61 ‘go to and call servants’ 70 ‘they were few’
72 lord labors with them
Bednar on Jacob 5
“We were foreordained in the premortal existence and born into mortality to fulfill the covenant and promise God made to Abraham.”
ETB on Jacob 5
“For nearly six thousand years, God has held you in reserve to make your appearance in the final days before the Second Coming of the Lord… All through the ages the prophets have looked down through the corridors of the time of day.”
Jacob 6
How blessed are they who have labored diligently in his vineyard.
Jacob 7
Jacob v Sherem
‘he had hope to shake me from the faith’ ‘i could not be shaken’
sherem
-labored diligently, used his education and ‘his perfect knowledge of language’ to flatter
- there should be no christ; no man can tell of things to come
ETB quote Jacob 7
”The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ… It fortifies the humble followers of Christ against the evil designs, strategies, and doctrines of the devil in our day… God, with his infinite foreknowledge, so molded the Book of Mormon that we might know how to combat false educational, political, religious, and philosophical concepts of our time.”
Enos
My soul hungered, my soul did rest
Two lines of kings
-zenif. - Mosiah
Noah Benjamin
Lemhi Mosiah 2
Omni
Amaleki: King Mosiah and Nephites fled the land of Nephi; discovered Mulekites in Zarahemla; Mosiah’s son Benjamin became King
• Mulekites have a record of a man named Coriantumr who lived with them when their forefathers first arrived from Israel
• Amaleki: Large group attempted to return to the land of Nephi; a conflict ensued & 50 returned; they regrouped and left again.
Word of Mormon
385 AD Mormon writes as if the reader has already heard from him. (maybe introduced in the book of lehi)
Mormon abridging lg plates when he found sm plates he decided to include them in the record and explains
How do we hear Mormons voice through the end of the book?
- Short editorial interruptions (Summaries, Explanatory details, Moral Generalizations, etc.)
- Long extended comment sections- become more frequent towards the end
- Personal letters and sermons inserted by Moroni after Mormon’s death
Mormon as a narrator
Mormon has a different style, difference concerns, and a different
purpose than Nephi and Jacob
• Mormon sometimes embeds primary sources word for word
• He may have reconstructed sermons and conversations
• Mormon’s writings are intricate and careful. We may want to rethink
the assumption that this was a hurried compose-as-you-go work; it’s likely that he transmitted to the plates a text he wrote before hand
Mosiah 1
Benjamin tells his sons they can search the scriptures and ‘profit’ from them
Mosiah 2
king benjamin
pitched tents around the temple
when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your god’
‘consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of god
Mosiah 3
the atonement
Angel appears to teach Benjamin
new information about christ
suffer and bleed from every pore
called jesus christ, he will be crucified
‘and the infant perisheth not that dieth in his infancy’
the natural man must yield to the holy spirit and become a saint through the atonement of Christ