Jarom & Omni
Reading Assignment for class on 11/16: Jarom & Omni (both books)
- Who are all the authors in these two shorts books? Why are there so many?
- Why is it so important to keep the commandments?
- Where do the people of Zarahemla come from?
- Who was Amaleki? What is your favorite verse from what he wrote?
Copy and paste this quote from Elder Maxwell into Omni.
So
it is that real, personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar.
Instead, it is a willingness to put the animal in us upon the altar and letting
it be consumed! Such is the “sacrifice unto the Lord … of a broken heart and a
contrite spirit,” (D&C 59:8), a prerequisite to taking up the cross, while
giving “away all [our] sins” in order to “know God” (Alma 22:18) for the denial
of self precedes the full acceptance of Him. (Neal A. Maxwell, April 1995)
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KnoWhy #328
“Wherefore, we withstood the Lamanites and swept them away out of our lands, and began to fortify our cities, or whatsoever place of our inheritance. And we [made] … weapons of war—yea, the sharp pointed arrow, and the quiver, and the dart, and the javelin, and all preparations for war.”
Jarom 1:7–8
KnoWhy #76
“Now behold, I, Jarom, write a few words according to the commandment of my father, Enos, that our genealogy may be kept.”
Jarom 1:1
KnoWhy #74
“And I, Jacob, saw that I must soon go down to my grave; wherefore, I said unto my son Enos: Take these plates. And I told him the things which my brother Nephi had commanded me, and he promised obedience unto the commands.”
Jacob 7:27
April 13, 2016
KnoWhy #77
Omni 1:20
... related the origin of the Jaredites “from the tower” ( Omni 1:20–22 ). Early Latter-day Saints living in Nauvoo were ... which literally meant “large stone,” just as it is in Omni 1:20 . 3 LDS Mesoamericanists Mark Wright and Kerry Hull have both ...