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There’s literally too much wrong with this book to write it all down every chapter. I get frustrated reading this. And then I get really sad. Pray for the lost.
Nephi’s been having this vision of the “promised land” and “heaven” and the tree of life that’s definitely not the tree of life. Smith quotes and obscures a lot of NT and is vague in all the important parts and specific when he has the info.
— Aug 12, 2025 03:14PM
Nephi’s been having this vision of the “promised land” and “heaven” and the tree of life that’s definitely not the tree of life. Smith quotes and obscures a lot of NT and is vague in all the important parts and specific when he has the info.
Benjamin Brooks
is on page 12 of 531
Oh boy (there’s only 6 verses in this chapter, making 66% of this chapter erroneous)
Yellow: vv 1, 3, 6
Red: v 2
— Aug 09, 2025 11:33AM
Yellow: vv 1, 3, 6
Red: v 2
Benjamin Brooks
is on page 11 of 531
New color! Amazingly I am now also highlighting in blue, which is something that’s actually true.
1 Nephi 5
Blue: v 2
Yellow: vv 6, 9, 12-13
Red: vv 19-20
— Aug 09, 2025 08:26AM
1 Nephi 5
Blue: v 2
Yellow: vv 6, 9, 12-13
Red: vv 19-20
Benjamin Brooks
is on page 10 of 531
1Ne4
This one has a few theological uh oh’s so let’s break it down. I’ll start using yellow and red to organize. Yellow is anything that’s weird, suspicious, or interesting enough to mention. Red is anything theologically, historically, or narratively incorrect outright.
Yellow: vv 11-12, 14
Red: vv 2,16, 18-21
— Aug 08, 2025 09:08AM
This one has a few theological uh oh’s so let’s break it down. I’ll start using yellow and red to organize. Yellow is anything that’s weird, suspicious, or interesting enough to mention. Red is anything theologically, historically, or narratively incorrect outright.
Yellow: vv 11-12, 14
Red: vv 2,16, 18-21
Benjamin Brooks
is on page 7 of 531
1Ne.3
Not much here, but it is interesting that a genealogy would be recorded on brass plates instead of passed down orally or written down with a paper equivalent. I’m curious why brass?
v17 “he knew that Jerusalem must be destroyed” Jeremiah is the contemporary prophet to 1 Nephi so people would certainly be hearing his prophesies of Babylon.
— Aug 07, 2025 01:32PM
Not much here, but it is interesting that a genealogy would be recorded on brass plates instead of passed down orally or written down with a paper equivalent. I’m curious why brass?
v17 “he knew that Jerusalem must be destroyed” Jeremiah is the contemporary prophet to 1 Nephi so people would certainly be hearing his prophesies of Babylon.
Benjamin Brooks
is on page 5 of 531
1Ne.2
“now this he speak because of the stiffneckedness… for behold, they did murmur and many things against their father”
Interesting how the second chapter of the whole book introduces that there is doubt for this religion, and that there is severe punishment for doubting this religion. Almost as if that is a manipulation tactic that cult leaders will use to bolster fake authenticity.
— Aug 07, 2025 01:05PM
“now this he speak because of the stiffneckedness… for behold, they did murmur and many things against their father”
Interesting how the second chapter of the whole book introduces that there is doubt for this religion, and that there is severe punishment for doubting this religion. Almost as if that is a manipulation tactic that cult leaders will use to bolster fake authenticity.
Benjamin Brooks
is on page 3 of 531
1 Ne. 1
v2 “in the language of my father, which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians.”
What I was able to find was that this is called reformed Egyptian. What I wasn’t able to find was any other source using this language besides something Joseph Smith wrote down, which is not even enough to be able to decipher an entire language. This book isn’t verifiable.
— Aug 07, 2025 01:02PM
v2 “in the language of my father, which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians.”
What I was able to find was that this is called reformed Egyptian. What I wasn’t able to find was any other source using this language besides something Joseph Smith wrote down, which is not even enough to be able to decipher an entire language. This book isn’t verifiable.
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Brief explanation:
“abridgment by Mormon… with many commentaries.”
“abridged by Moroni, who inserted comments of his own…”
Again, this book is just admitting that it is full of idiosyncrasies that you must believe blindly. It is a poor source academically, and spiritually. I’m not even on page one yet.
— Aug 07, 2025 12:53PM
“abridgment by Mormon… with many commentaries.”
“abridged by Moroni, who inserted comments of his own…”
Again, this book is just admitting that it is full of idiosyncrasies that you must believe blindly. It is a poor source academically, and spiritually. I’m not even on page one yet.
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Smith’s testimony:
“But his whole person was glorious beyond description” nothing in the entirety of the Bible has been beyond description, including God (Dan. 7:9-10; Rev. 4:2-6) but ok.
Really interested to see how the Urim and Thummim get to America, and how it can be concluded they were used for translating anything (Ex. 28:30; Lev. 8:8 being the only mentions of it in the Bible).
— Aug 07, 2025 12:26PM
“But his whole person was glorious beyond description” nothing in the entirety of the Bible has been beyond description, including God (Dan. 7:9-10; Rev. 4:2-6) but ok.
Really interested to see how the Urim and Thummim get to America, and how it can be concluded they were used for translating anything (Ex. 28:30; Lev. 8:8 being the only mentions of it in the Bible).
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Interesting not that v14 mentions Jeremiah being imprisoned so we are close historically to the fall of Jerusalem
v1: “ but that his son should take daughters to wife, that they might raise up seed unto the Lord in the land of promise.”
Usually when God promises offspring to someone, it’s because he’s already married to someone, and God promises offspring for a specific couple, such as Abraham and Sarah (Gen. 17:16). Hosea was promised children after being commanded to take a specific person as a wife (Hos. 1:2), but even then, he was commanded to marry someone before being told to have children. Here we have Nephi being promised a prosperous seed, but he doesn’t even have a wife. It’s not even God’s idea, they realize they need to go find women to marry because they don’t have any prospects. It’s like a vague fortune cookie telling an unemployed person they’re going to be rich. I mean yeah maybe but let’s start with “you will get a job”.
v2: “I, Nephi, and my breathing, should again return unto the land of Jerusalem,”
For a people that’s supposed to be leaving Jerusalem at the command of God, they sure seem to be going back to Jerusalem a lot.
v22: “We and they did offer sacrifice and burn offerings unto him.”
Again I’m just curious here what exactly they sacrificed.