Objectives Flashcards
The Nephite legal system (Alma 30:6-11)
Not punished for their beliefs
The arguments of Korihor (Alma 30:12-28)
Believe = Parents, Society
Can’t Know = Unless you see
Bad Motives = the religious leader gain power over people
The response of Alma to Korihor’s arguments (Alma 30:39-44)
Brethren, Prophet, Words, Creation all testify of Chirst
Alma’s plan to reclaim the Zoramites (Alma 31:1-5, 9-11)
Teach them the word of God using Scripture
Alma’s prayer (Alma 31:29-38)
Christ Centered Prayer
Alma and Amulek’s success among the poor
Zoramites were told by others they were poor because of the lack of clothes and riches; esstemed as dross
Alma’s comparison of the word to a seed
Seed is word. Seed is not faith
Zenos’s teachings on worship
We can talk to God anytime because and through Christ
Amulek’s teaching on Atonement
Faith unto repentance (4x said) which allows mercy to fulfill the demands of justice
-Beginging of war chapters
Alma 36’s literary form
Chiasmus -> Center -> Christ (Chance of happening 1/100,000–chance that Joseph Smith could have come up with that) (example of Chiasmus: ABCDDCBA)
Change of Heart: Alma changed from wanting to shrink from God’s presence to desiring w/all his heart to be there. Alma changed, not God. (v.15- scared to meet with God, v.22- he can’t wait to see God)
Gazelem
Joseph Smith
Stone (possibility)
The Liahona: Theological type of how God works in our lives
Divinely Created: too great to be made by man
Faith in God - Works accordingly
Day by Day
Small means
Alma’s closing counsel to Shiblon
Don’t be prideful`
Corianton, Isabel, and the ministry
Cross yourself/take up your cross.
Alma’s teachings on the afterlife
Material Heaven
Space after Death
Doctrine of Restoration
If works=good, good restored to you. If works=bad, bad restored to you
Alma’s teachings on mercy and justice
Need both justice and mercy. Can’t get lazy/complacent because of grace/mercy, but need to repent and live according to justice. Both laws work together. If you only had mercy there would be no need for repentance, and if only justice you would feel like you can’t repent.
Moroni and Zarahemnah battle
God justifies war if A) Not guilty of 1st or 2nd offense, and B) defending families even if it means bloodshed
Moroni and Zarahemna speak with one another
Moroni’s belief: We won because of our faith in God
Zarahemnah’s belief: You won because of your tactics/armor
Alma’s prophecy on the fate of the Nephites
Prophecies to Helaman: 400 years after Christ, Nephites are
1) absorbed by Lamanite culture or
2) extinct
The Title of Liberty
Tearing garments of Nephites is sign of their covenant. If they fail to defend liberty God will rend them also.
Moroni and Amalikiah
Moroni: wants liberty, labors for his people, fights only to defend, submits his will to God
Amalikiah: destroys liberty, doesn’t care for people, curses God, wants power at any cost.
War chapters and interpretation
Hermeneutics: the study of interpretation
Allegorical interpretation: meaning beyond the text
Typological interpretation: drawing similarities between the text and my life.
Morianton
Abuse of women likely unacceptable in ancient culture
His stubbornness led to civil war within Nephite people
The Kingmen
People given authority will abuse it almost every time.
Death of Amalickiah
Killed on first day. Perhaps a superstitious omen of eventual Lamanite defeat
One aspect of the Nephite war
Split war: battles on the East (Moroni) and on the West (Helaman by the seas. there were 2 fronts
Way more Lamanites
(EAST) Moroni’s reply to Ammoron (Alma 54:5-14)
Sees the war from faith-based aspect (doesn’t separate war and religion).
Trusts in God’s deliverance. Moroni thinks that God is with him
(EAST) Ammoron’s reply to Moroni (Alma 54:16-24)
Frames Nephites as bad guys and Moroni as murderer of his brother.
Ammaron thinks he is right because of the Lamanite Victim Narrative
(WEST) Helaman’s letter to Moroni (Alma 56:1-58:41)
Stripling Warriors:
1) More concerned about brethren than their lives,
2) had faith in God,
3) wouldn’t fight unless attacked.
Moroni’s Letter to Pahoran (Alma 60)
Challenges doesn’t mean that the people are being wicked (the soldiers who are dying aren’t wicked) referring to leaders being wicked or those in power/government (Pahoran’s government)
Pahoran’s reply to Moroni (Alma 61)
Pahoran can see mistakes without getting angry he wasn’t prideful against what Moroni said
The judgment-seat issue
The judgement seat was inherited; the government was a family issue.
Mass conversions
Salvation is attainable by everyone
The beginning of the reign of Nephi son of Helaman
Shows almost the entire destruction of the Nephites (Hel. 4)
An aspect of the Book of Mormon narrative
It is a parallel narrative ex.(Nephi giving up judgement seat and Alma doing the same/ Nephi and Lehi break out of prison like Alma and Amulek)
Parallel narrative is when the author is trying to get us to notice something
The deliverance of Lehi and Nephi
Parallel with 3 Nephi 11 the spirit speaks three times, darkness, still small voice pierces to the very soul
The differences between the Nephites and the Lamanites
Nephites lose the Holy Ghost, Lamanites gain more
A possible description of Nephi’s home (Helaman 7:10)
There were internal roads, house gardens, main and lesser markets, and small prayer towers
Nephite epistemology
The way you know something.
Number of witnesses and various kinds of witnesses. The more witnesses you have, the better.
A major theme in Mormon’s writings
Mormon emphasizes fulfilled prophecy over and over again “And thus we see”
Book of Mormon parallelisms (Hel. 12)
Repeated Ideas, contrasted, often in the form of poetry. (ie: Helaman 12)
Samuel preaching to the Nephites
The Nephites claim to righteousness: they say they wouldn’t have slain the ancient prophets. In actuality, though, they are wicked because they reject their own modern prophets. (They justify their unrighteousness with their righteousness) (Helaman 13:24-26).
Samuel on the spiritual death (Helaman 14:15-18)
Physical Death 1st Spiritual (Fall) 2nd Spiritual (Eternal)
Samuel’s prophecy on the Lamanites
The Lamanites will be preserved because they are steadfast in living the gospel after receiving it. (vs 10)
The reaction to the “great signs given unto the people” (Helaman 16)
Say that “they may have guessed some right.” (rolled with it.)
Feel entitled to the signs shown to those in Jerusalem.
Question the motives of the righteous, saying it is used to control the people
Reaction to the signs
Mormon tells us that our heart determines how we see things. (the world says our eyes discern what we feel, but Mormon says that what you see is based on who you are.”) (3 Nephi 2:1-2)
The letter from Gidianhi
Often, when we accuse people of hurting us, we are actually hurting ourselves
The battles with Giddianhi and Zemnarihah
Praise and gratitude towards God are at the center of worship
(they defeated these 2 gaddies and celebrated with praise and gratitude.) (3 Nephi 4: 31)
Information about Mormon
Mormon knows his writings fulfill the prayers of the righteous prophets before
More pride cycle
People willfully rebelling against God leads to destruction
AD 30-33
Nephi is a type of Christ (3 Nephi 7:15-21)
The Nephites hear the voice of the Savior
When people reject the prophets and resist the Holy Ghost, they are ripening for destruction (3 Nephi 9:5-11)
The devil enjoys when the people are slain
The repeated reason the people get cut off because they kill the prophets
The Nephites hear the voice of the Savior in the darkness (3 Nephi 9:13-22)
Invitation from Christ to come to Him.
Mormon’s commentary after the destructions (3 Nephi 10: 11-17)
Mormon’s primary evidence= fulfilled prophecy
Jesus’ initial teachings after his appearance (3 Nephi 11:21-)
End disputes over baptism and doctrine.
BAPTISM
