By Scott S. Mitchell In recent essays on this website, I have discussed two critical Book of Mormon scriptures (2 Nephi 4 and Jacob 2 and 3). The exegesis of those verses by the LDS Church (hereafter also referred to as "the Church") has been woefully inadequate and misleading. I've hypothesized that these two scriptures … Continue reading The LDS Church’s Most Overlooked and Underrated Scripture
2 Nephi 4
2 Nephi 4 and the Pain or Exhilaration of Learning What You Thought You Wanted to Know, Part 2
By Scott S. Mitchell In Part 1, I argued that the specific messages of 2 Nephi 4 in the Book of Mormon go almost completely ignored in the writings and teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (hereafter, "the Church"). This chapter, which is accurately called the psalm of Nephi, contains, … Continue reading 2 Nephi 4 and the Pain or Exhilaration of Learning What You Thought You Wanted to Know, Part 2
2 Nephi 4 and the Pain or Exhilaration of Learning What You Thought You Wanted to Know, Part 1
By Scott S. Mitchell One of my daughters, who loves math and majored in statistics in college, recently challenged me to solve a math word problem to which she had already figured out the answer. Since I generally enjoy word problems, and believed careful thinking on my part would reveal the solution, I had no … Continue reading 2 Nephi 4 and the Pain or Exhilaration of Learning What You Thought You Wanted to Know, Part 1
