Thursday, October 21, 2010

Just a beginning -- will be changed

words unique to latterday scriptures: steadfast, molest, probation, (harrow), (plan of _________), promised land, (whole soul), performances and ordinances, according to their faith, revile against, patient in sufferings/affliction (xref Romans 12:12), spotless (xref "without spot), righteous people, anxiety, bar of God, establish peace, endless torment, encircled, glad tidings of great joy, surrounded, spurn

Book of Mormon implies that after baptism, the Holy Ghost descends on you. No other kind of imposition necessary.

1 Nephi 4:9, Alma 1:9 - people just carry around swords?

why is there a church mentioned in 1 Nephi 4:26?

were church members ever called brethren in Judaism? 1 Nephi 4:26

where does the idea of "free" men come from in 1 Nephi 4:33?

compass in 1 Nephi 18:12?

crucify a word common to the Nephites (and Jews)? 1 Ne 19:10, etc.

pastors in 1 Nephi 21:1?

"And then" in 2 Nephi 15:1 is way out of place

when did "seraphims" change to "seraphim" in 2 Nephi 16?

why is Sea of Chinneroth called "Red Sea" in 2 Nephi 19:1?

why "wear" stiff necks and high heads in 2 Nephi 28:14, Jacob 2:13?

devil having chains?

"providence" is a Greek conception of foresight - why used in Jacob 2:13?

Enos 1:25, Jarom 1:13 - do we know anyone alive today whose father knew Joseph Smith, or whose grandfather was born during the French and Indian war?

Mosiah 10:4 - men tilled the ground and raised all kinds of fruit? doesn't mean vegetable too after 13th century A.D.

Mosiah 11:5 - how can Alma have authority to baptize after being consecrated, without authority, by king Noah?

Mosiah 19:16,26 - was Limhi the only son or just one of the sons of Noah?

Mosiah 20:5 - a recap: 450 people (incl. women & children) follow Alma into the wilderness (18:35), the kings forces are "small" having been reduced (from 11:17? divisions in army spoken as "fifty"s in 11:19...), and 24 Lamanite daughters are taken by Noah's priests... makes sense

Mosiah 21:7 - where did they get armor?

Alma 1:15 - "was caused, or rather did acknowledge" - Hebrew causative doesn't allow a split like this

Alma 3:5, 43:21 - from armor to no armor

Alma 10:22-23 -- the people of Ammonihah were destroyed not by famine and pestilence, but only by the sword (Alma 16:9)

Alma 16:17 - no vines in the new world...

Alma 17:21 - how is the son of the king of the Lamanites a descendant of Ishmael?

Alma 21:2,4 - Amlicites won't exist until the fifth year of their ministry, and this refers to the first. Also, the Nehors weren't big at this time either...

Alma 23:18, 24:8 - Did a correspondence really open up by this time? Not mentioned in Alma's account... also, Alma 27:6

Alma 33:2 - an expectation that everyone can read...

Did Helaman begin leading the Stripling Warriors in the 26th or 28th year of the reign of the judges? Alma 52:18-19, 53:8-23, 56:9

Helaman 8:20 - Ezias, or Esaias, is the Greek equivalent of Isaiah... name found in KJV New Testament. See also D&C 84:11-13

Helaman 9:18,38 - were the five men liberated and then chose ("nevertheless") to take part in the trial, or were they liberated after the trial?

Helaman 14:20 - How do we count three days between the death and resurrection of Christ?

3 Nephi 20:16,21:11-12,22-29 -- How come these things didn't happen as prophesied?

3 Nephi 20:30-33 -- Jews will believe in Christ and then be gathered to Jerusalem... wait a second!

4 Nephi 1:14,18-19 -- Nephi lived longer than 72 years, had not gone to the paradise of God by the hundredth year, and was not among the "three which should tarry"

4 Nephi 1:19-20, 21, 47 -- Amos lived long! His son lived longer!

Mormon 2:15-16 -- did he miss 10 years on accident?

Why is the Johannine Comma referenced in Ether 5:4?

Ether 7:14 -- Noah is a Hebrew name, not actually existent at the time here.

Ether 9:15,16,24,10:8,15,32 -- a lot of numbers ending in 2, esp. 42