Chapter 4 Scripture Study

50. According to the Bible has the Lord ever destroyed the wicked or commanded the righteous to destroy them? Explain

Genesis 6:5-13

The LORD destroyed the wicked people except Noah and the Ark and his family and the animals on the ark.

Deuteronomy 7:2 Verse 2 says And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

Deuteronomy 9:4 4.Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

Acts 5:1-11 says

1.But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,

2.And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

3. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

4. Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

5. And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost; and great fear came on all them that heard these things.

6. And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.

7. And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.

8. And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.

9. Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.

10. Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.

11. And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.

1 Nephi 17:35

35. Behold, The Lord esteemeth all flesh in one; he that is righteous is favored of God. But behold, this people had rejected every word of God, and they were ripe in iniquity; and the fullness of the wrath of God was upon them; and the Lord did curse the land against them, and bless it unto our fathers; yea he did curse it against them unto their destruction, and he did bless it unto our fathers unto their obtaining power over it.

The Lord cursed the land against the wicked the wrath of God was upon them. But the Lord did bless it unto our fathers.

51. What nation would dwindle and perish in unbelief ? 1st Nephi Verse 13

13. Behold the Lord slayeth the wicked to bring forth his righteous purposes. It is better that one man should perish than that a nation should dwindle and perish in unbelief. The nation is America

The Mulekites had no records with them they denied the being of their Creator and Mosiah, nor the people of Mosiah could not understand them.

52. In my opinion if a 19 century American religious leader had written The Book of Mormon as a ''pious fraud'' to win converts to a new Christian sect, would he have had Nephi slay Laban? Why or why not? No, because if the book was a fraud then God wouldn't need to save people. The Lord wanted to save people who were righteous. God needed his righteous people to have their records of the creation and their genealogy. God wanted us to know more things. He wanted to give more information to his people. The Book of Mormon was translated by Joseph Smith by the Power of God. This is my testimony. Heavenly Father has a plan for all of his children. He wants all of us to return to him someday. The Book of Mormon is ancient scripture. Joseph Smith saw the Father and the Son in the Sacred Grove. From there he was an instrument in Gods hands to restore Christ's Church upon the earth today. If we follow the commandments of God and live the best we can we can live with our Heavenly Father and Jesus in the life hereafter. We are all spirit children of our Heavenly Father. We came to earth to show the Lord that we want to be with him after this life. There was a veil placed over our minds so that we could not remember our life in heaven. Through faith in Christ and following the Lord's commandments we can return to live in his presence in the next life. We can also have our families sealed to us for time and all eternity. This means that in the next life we can be together again. This is the Lord's plan. The greatest gift that God could give us.

53. The fact that Nephi promised Zoram that he should be a free man like unto us. Verse 33 Zoram must have been a slave or a servant.

Was slavery, involving Hebrew slaves practiced during the reign of King Zedikiah?

Consult Jeremiah 34:8-11 Yes slavery was practiced during the reign of King Zedikiah until they were commanded to let them go

54. After Nephi and Zoram had exchanged oaths(verse 32-35)

Zoram made an oath with Nephi that he would promise to go down into the wilderness and live with Nephi and his family. Nephi says in (verse 37) that Zoram made an oath with them and their fears did cease concerning him.

Joshua 9: 1-21 It says that when a man made an oath it was his word and you could trust him.

That's what I learned in Chapter 4