Comments on: Reading Nephi – 7:1-5 https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2015/11/reading-nephi-71-5/ Truth Will Prevail Sun, 05 Aug 2018 23:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 By: Terry H https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2015/11/reading-nephi-71-5/#comment-534950 Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:19:53 +0000 http://timesandseasons.org/?p=34312#comment-534950 James. I like the way you’ve identified the family, covenant and God as not merely complementary but as one. Frankly, its a disadvantage to our culture to try to segregate them. It is more than a mere platitude to say that when you have all three working together you have Zion. Enoch and Melchizedek proved that. The covenants are principles of power that we in today’s society do not utilize. I liked Julie’s three-legged stool reference and it would apply here as well.

Clark, I thought we saw the Lehi/Ishmael dynamic in the “Book of Mormon Movie Part I”. Seriously, I’ve always viewed Ishmael and Lehi as a bit like Abraham and his brother. I think there was a strong family connection (perhaps even as close as a brother.) I also think (as discussed earlier) there was some kind of family tie with Laban.

]]> By: Clark Goble https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2015/11/reading-nephi-71-5/#comment-534906 Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:53:39 +0000 http://timesandseasons.org/?p=34312#comment-534906 I think the big question is who this Ismael is and what his relation to Lehi was. It’s interesting that Nephi’s text doesn’t really address this at all.

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