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- |L=FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/2 Nephi |H=FairMormon Study Aids: 2 Nephi18 KB (2,350 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- |L=FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/3 Nephi |H=FairMormon Study Aids: 3 Nephi28 KB (4,176 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
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- ==Question: What is known about the name "Nephi" in the Book of Mormon?== |title=A Note on the Name Nephi3 KB (568 words) - 15:34, 13 April 2024
- |title=The Arabian Bountiful Discovered? Evidence for Nephi's Bountiful ...in seemingly barren Arabia. However, a beautiful, wooded valley that fits Nephi's description of the place in detail has recently been identified on the re2 KB (246 words) - 13:16, 12 April 2024
- Later copies of "Nephi" in place of "Moroni" ...t contains the same wording as the previous volume had: “…his name was Nephi…. ” Supplement, page 4.3 KB (467 words) - 23:28, 29 January 2014
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- #REDIRECT [[Template:Critical sources box:Book of Mormon/Nephi's killing of Laban/Was it "cold blooded murder"/CriticalSources]]128 bytes (18 words) - 00:04, 6 May 2024
- #REDIRECT [[Book of Mormon/Nephi's killing of Laban/Was it "cold blooded murder"/Further Reading]]98 bytes (15 words) - 13:37, 15 May 2014
- ==Roper et al.: "Nephi had been a Jew politically, but his ancestors were of Manasseh"==2 KB (291 words) - 15:46, 13 April 2024
- ==Jeffery R. Holland: "It is wrong to assume that Nephi in any way wished to take Laban’s life"== It is wrong to assume that Nephi in any way wished to take Laban’s life. He was a young man, and despite a2 KB (264 words) - 14:26, 13 April 2024
- #REDIRECT [[Jeffery R. Holland: "It is wrong to assume that Nephi in any way wished to take Laban’s life"]]109 bytes (20 words) - 17:08, 19 October 2017
- ==Question: Did Nephi commit "cold blooded murder" when he killed Laban?== ===Nephi did not commit the equivalent of a first-degree murder under the laws of hi4 KB (606 words) - 15:16, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Why didn't God simply preserve Nephi's life using divine power instead of requiring him to kill Laban?== ===The Lord actually ''did'' preserve Nephi and his brothers two times from being killed by Laban===1 KB (268 words) - 15:38, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did the prophet Nephi visit Joseph at some point in time?== ...seph's associates believed that Joseph had visits from both Moroni ''and'' Nephi during the process of the Restoration===2 KB (370 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
- ...hristofferson: "The June 1839 Manuscript History of the Church says it was Nephi who appeared to Joseph Smith in 1823 rather than Moroni"== ...ette, New York. The June 1839 Manuscript History of the Church says it was Nephi who appeared to Joseph Smith in 1823 rather than Moroni. Now, however, with2 KB (281 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
- ...identify the angel that visited Joseph as "Moroni" that date prior to the "Nephi" error?==5 KB (836 words) - 15:10, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Which sources mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates?== ...ere is actually only ''one source'' that claims the heavenly messenger was Nephi, which was an error===13 KB (2,175 words) - 15:37, 13 April 2024
- ...stion: Did Joseph Smith originally identify the angel that visited him as "Nephi" instead of "Moroni"?==7 KB (1,080 words) - 15:15, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Were there not enough people available in Nephi's time to build a temple "after the manner of the temple of Solomon"?== ===Nephi is saying the he built a temple that was of the same pattern Solomon's temp2 KB (310 words) - 13:25, 1 May 2024
- ==Question: Was Nephi's temple "similar in splendor" to Solomon's temple?== ===Nephi stated that it was ''not'' like Solomon's temple" because many "precious th2 KB (347 words) - 15:28, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did Joseph Smith create the story of Nephi and Laban by plagiarizing concepts and phrases from the story of Judith and ===The story of Judith and Holofernes and the story of Nephi and Laban actually have more dissimilarities than parallels===4 KB (656 words) - 15:14, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did Joseph Smith copy the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha?== ...re both attested Egyptian names appropriate to the time and place in which Nephi existed===2 KB (396 words) - 15:14, 13 April 2024
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- ...oroni who delivered the sacred records and Urim and Thummim to Joseph; but Nephi also visited him”, Jessee, ''Papers of Joseph Smith I. Autobiographical a3 KB (407 words) - 14:15, 2 December 2014
- ==Question: Why does 2 Nephi 19:1 change the word "sea" in Isaiah 9 to "Red Sea"?== 2 Nephi 19:1, a quotation of Isaiah by the prophet Nephi, reads:19 KB (3,147 words) - 15:38, 13 April 2024
- ...ne that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female" (2 Nephi 26:33) refer to race?== {{s|2|Nephi|26|33}}:3 KB (422 words) - 15:20, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: How can 1 Nephi 22:15 in the Book of Mormon quote Malachi 4:1 hundreds of years before Mala ...ns from original texts (even Malachi is treated this way by Jesus in {{s|3|Nephi|24-25|}}. If these are not a problem, then a resemblance to biblical langu2 KB (345 words) - 20:22, 30 April 2024
- ==Question: Is Nephi's mention of Jeremiah being put into prison anachronistic, since Jeremiah w It is claimed that Nephi's mention of Jeremiah being put into prison ({{s|1|Nephi|7|14}}) is anachronistic, since Jeremiah would not have been in prison when1 KB (221 words) - 15:25, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Why was the phrase "or out of the waters of baptism" added to 1 Nephi 20:1?== <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid black;">{{scripture|1|Nephi|20|1}}</td>3 KB (499 words) - 15:39, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Could Satan have deceived Nephi into killing Laban?== ===Nephi has experience with both the voice of the Spirit and the voice of the Lord4 KB (702 words) - 21:16, 30 April 2024
- ==Question: Could the angel which came to Nephi have been a demonic "angel of light" sent to deceive him?== ...od, a demonic messenger would be unaware of the Lord's previous message to Nephi===4 KB (643 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Was Nephi simply listening to "a voice in his head" telling him to kill Laban as the ===This position would be a possibility, were it not for the fact that Nephi has already seen an ''angel''===3 KB (468 words) - 15:28, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Since Nephi beheaded Laban, wouldn't there be a large amount of blood afterward?== ...is ignores, further, the role which the Lord's help could play in allowing Nephi to successfully deceive Zoram.2 KB (296 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Is the story of Nephi killing Laban and then putting on his clothes believable?== ...se who are familiar with night patrolling in wartime, however, will see in Nephi's tale a convincing and realistic account"===6 KB (999 words) - 15:26, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Do Doctrine and Covenants 20:37 and 2 Nephi 31:17 or 3 Nephi 12:2 contradict one another regarding the order in which one receives bapti ...tures such as {{s||D&C|20|37}} (first case) and {{s|2|Nephi|31|17}}, {{s|3|Nephi|12|2}}, and {{s||Moroni|8|11}} (second case) are contradictory about the or8 KB (1,369 words) - 00:29, 7 May 2024
- #REDIRECT [[Question: What is known about the name "Nephi" in the Book of Mormon?]]83 bytes (14 words) - 09:04, 10 April 2017
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- ==Question: Are the descriptions of Nephi (from the Book of Mormon) and Fulton’s (from The Late War) ships similar [[File:Fulton and Nephi screenshot.png]]752 bytes (105 words) - 15:10, 13 April 2024
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- #REDIRECT[[Climate in the Book of Mormon#Question: Why does Nephi mention "snow" in the Book of Mormon?]]105 bytes (18 words) - 21:21, 7 May 2024
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- [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.27-28?lang=eng#26/ 2 Nephi 2: 27-28]9 KB (1,563 words) - 21:34, 12 April 2024
- ...its passage down the centuries ([http://scriptures.lds.org/1_ne/13/24#29 1 Nephi 13:24–29]). Some of these missing parts the Prophet Joseph Smith unde ...orld as He had promised to come ([http://scriptures.lds.org/3_ne/1/13#13 3 Nephi 1:13]), taking an infant tabernacle, and developing it gradually to the ful16 KB (2,907 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Why does the Book of Mormon mention "satyrs" in 2 Nephi 23:21? Aren't satyrs mythological creatures?== ...ain the mention of "satyrs," commonly regarded as mythical creatures, in 2 Nephi 23:21 and Isaiah 13:21 and 34:14?|date=February 1996|start=63}}{{link|url=h3 KB (435 words) - 15:39, 13 April 2024
- ...ime "likening the scriptures unto ourselves," to use Nephi's phrase ({{s|1|Nephi|19|23}}). ...society, have progressed (line upon line, precept upon precept, see {{s|2|Nephi|28|30}}) to become better people in this respect, more tolerant, more accep9 KB (1,415 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2024
- ...is a reproduction of the fifty third chapter of Isaiah the prophet; and 3 Nephi 13:1–18 copies Matthew 6:1–23. ...d the same language as recorded in the Bible. They also maintain that when Nephi came to America he brought copies of Hebrew Scriptures, which account for q4 KB (734 words) - 15:58, 13 April 2024
- ...lizations of corresponding events, which are repeatedly characterized in 3 Nephi as affecting "the face of the whole earth." ...the great natural disasters at the time of the Savior's crucifixion ({{s|3|Nephi|8|}}),[2] and (3) the ultimate destruction of the Nephite people ({{s||Morm3 KB (426 words) - 18:06, 30 April 2024
- Question: Why do Mormons follow the practice of most Christians by resting and worshiping on Sunday?...about a matter as trivial as the day dedicated to his worship.(See: {{s|3|Nephi|11|29-30}}, {{b||Colossians|2|16}}.)17 KB (2,918 words) - 15:38, 13 April 2024
- [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.27,28?lang=eng#27/ 2 Nephi 2: 27-28] ...no one else besides the prophet] who can determine what this prophesy from Nephi might mean for the Church as a whole.6 KB (983 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- ...d as long as they were in the Garden, "they would have no children" ({{s|2|Nephi|2|23}}). This is also strengthened in the Bible. Children are not even ment4 KB (656 words) - 15:16, 13 April 2024
- ...ette, New York. The June 1839 Manuscript History of the Church says it was Nephi who appeared to Joseph Smith in 1823 rather than Moroni. Now, however, with2 KB (261 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
- ...e, all of this has been brought into focus by another “choice seer” (2 Nephi 3:7) that God has raised in the latter days.<ref>Stephen Smoot, "Abraham th208 KB (32,568 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- ...the three days of darkness following Jesus' crucifixion, as reported by 3 Nephi (see [[Book_of_Mormon/Anachronisms/Three_days_of_darkness|Three days of dar4 KB (521 words) - 14:08, 13 April 2024
- ...[Question: Why was the phrase "or out of the waters of baptism" added to 1 Nephi 20:1?]]99 bytes (16 words) - 17:47, 3 April 2017
- ...emand that the video's producers compare the words of Jesus as recorded by Nephi with the words of Jesus as recorded by Matthew.8 KB (1,361 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...blish the truthfulness of the Bible by substantiating its teachings ({{s|1|Nephi|13|39-40}}). In this sense, it becomes a second witness of Christ by suppor ...they perish from that which is good, and become miserable forever. ({{s|2|Nephi|2|5}})44 KB (7,529 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...ash;that corresponds precisely with the Nahom of the Book of Mormon ({{s|1|Nephi|16|34}}) in time frame, location, and in relation to an eastward turn in th ...te totally unknown in Joseph Smith's day is also compelling evidence for 1 Nephi's ancient origins.15 KB (2,306 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- * Christ loves us ({{s|3|Nephi|17|5-22}}, {{s||Moroni|7|48}}) * Christ prays for us to the Father ({{s|3|Nephi|17|15-22}}, {{s|3|Nephi|18|23-25}}).29 KB (4,776 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...ll also speak unto all nations of the earth and they shall write it.' [II Nephi 29.6,7,11,12]. 'For behold, the Lord doth grant unto all nations, of their7 KB (1,241 words) - 01:49, 27 April 2024
- ..., we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ" ({{s|2|Nephi|25|26}}). Jesus Christ is the center of our devotion and worship. All praye ...hat the blades had rusted. Ether 7:9 says their swords were made of steel. Nephi used the sword of Laban (which was made of steel) as a pattern to make his34 KB (5,824 words) - 22:40, 9 May 2024
- ...know to what source [we] may look for a remission of [our] sins” ({{s|2|Nephi|25|26}}).'' ...the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death.... ({{s|2|Nephi|2|27}})27 KB (4,448 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...gate is the Holy One of Israel, and he employeth no servant there" ({{s|2|Nephi|9|41}}).11 KB (1,818 words) - 15:24, 13 April 2024
- #REDIRECT [[Book of Mormon/Nephi's killing of Laban/Could Satan deceive Nephi]]79 bytes (12 words) - 19:00, 19 November 2009
- #{{BYUS|author=Steven P. Sondrup|article=The Psalm of Nephi: A Lyric Reading|vol=21|num=3|date=1981|start=37|end=72}}{{link|url=http://1 KB (171 words) - 15:10, 13 April 2024
- ...Matthew 5-7 from the King James Version and Joseph Smith Translation and 3 Nephi 12-14 from the Book of Mormon. A much celebrated example is: {{s|3|Nephi|13|25-27}}) (Book of Mormon)6 KB (1,013 words) - 15:37, 13 April 2024
- |L4=Response to claim: "12. Why were the words 'white and delightsome' in 2 Nephi 30:6 changed to 'pure and delightsome' right on the heels of the Civil Righ .... Why does D. & C. 42:18 say there is no forgiveness for a murderer when 3 Nephi 30:2 says there is forgiveness for him?"13 KB (2,209 words) - 14:10, 13 April 2024
- *1 Ne. 1 Nephi *2 Ne. 2 Nephi27 KB (4,268 words) - 15:00, 13 April 2024
- ...lation to God’s children are epitomized by a verse in the second book of Nephi: “[The Lord] denieth none that cometh unto him, black and white, bond and2 KB (327 words) - 12:36, 27 April 2024
- ...om the Bible into the Book of Mormon when including the Lord's Prayer in 3 Nephi 13:13?== ...the Book of Mormon point to the ending of the Lord's Prayer as found in 3 Nephi 13:13 which reads "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,4 KB (653 words) - 15:14, 13 April 2024
- ...al statement about this issue from a negative perspective comes from {{s|2|Nephi|26|31}} (cited above). ...and praise of the world; but they seek not the welfare of Zion" (see {{s|2|Nephi|26|29}}). It is warned against and decried repeatedly (see {{s||Alma|1|12,123 KB (3,695 words) - 21:11, 7 May 2024
- #REDIRECT[[Climate in the Book of Mormon#Question: Why does Nephi mention "snow" in the Book of Mormon?]]105 bytes (18 words) - 21:21, 7 May 2024
- ...[Question: Why was the phrase "or out of the waters of baptism" added to 1 Nephi 20:1?]]99 bytes (16 words) - 22:16, 18 April 2017
- ...//www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/32.2-3?lang=eng 2 Nephi 32:2–3]; [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-tes ...://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/17.45?lang=eng 1 Nephi 17:45]; [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/jacob/6.40 KB (6,655 words) - 15:39, 13 April 2024
- |L1=Question: Did Joseph Smith create the story of Nephi and Laban by plagiarizing concepts and phrases from the story of Judith and |L2=Question: Did Joseph Smith copy the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha?984 bytes (155 words) - 23:17, 28 April 2024
- |summary=Why does the Book of Mormon mention "satyrs" in 2 Nephi 23:21? Aren't satyrs mythological creatures?650 bytes (94 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...es in the Apocrypha. It is also claimed that Joseph Smith copied the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha.373 bytes (56 words) - 15:54, 13 April 2024
- |link=../../Church history/Moroni's Visit/Nephi or Moroni |subject=Nephi or Moroni at First Encounter with Plates305 bytes (38 words) - 15:54, 13 April 2024
- |summary=Nephi's party reaches an area "which was called Nahom" (1 Nephi 16:34) near the time that they make an eastward turn in their journey. Stri584 bytes (93 words) - 15:54, 13 April 2024
- |summary=Shazer is introduced in 1 Nephi 16:, as Nephi's group departs from the hospitable Valley of Lemuel. Regarding the place n480 bytes (71 words) - 15:54, 13 April 2024
- ...erica?" which claims that it would have been impossible for a ship made by Nephi to have successfully carried the people and necessary supplies in a transoc569 bytes (87 words) - 15:54, 13 April 2024
- ...obinson, [http://farms-stage.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=7&num=1&id=168 Nephi's "Great and Abominable Church"]938 bytes (140 words) - 15:55, 13 April 2024
- ...CCOUNT WRITTEN BY THE HAND OF MORMON, UPON PLATES TAKEN FROM THE PLATES OF NEPHI. Wherefore it is an abridgement [abridgment] of the record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites; written to the Lamanites, who are a remnant of69 KB (12,223 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...the Book of Mormon point to the ending of the Lord's Prayer as found in 3 Nephi 13:13 which reads "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,731 bytes (122 words) - 15:56, 13 April 2024
- ...re they to be understood according to the spirit and not the flesh? And I, Nephi, sayeth unto them, Behold, they were made manifest unto the prophet, by the ...in righteousness, and the Holy One of Israel reigneth. And now behold, I, Nephi, say unto you that all these things must come according to the flesh. But,73 KB (12,947 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
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- ...ne that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female" (2 Nephi 26:33) refer to race? ...cussions on the topic boil down to asking how to interpret references in 2 Nephi 5 to a “mark” and a “curse” being placed on the Lamanites. Statemen7 KB (1,162 words) - 22:50, 1 May 2024
- ...lds.org/heb/1/6#6 Hebrews 1:6], [http://scriptures.lds.org/1_ne/11/16#26 1 Nephi 11:16–26], [http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/76/13#13 D&C 76:13]). * Jesus obeyed the Father in all things (See {{s|3|Nephi|11|11}}).22 KB (3,514 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...he "torment [of the wicked] is ''as'' a lake of fire and brimstone" ({{s|2|Nephi|9|16}})—that is to say, it is a torment, but the "fire and brimstone" ...d up at the last day by the grace and mercy of God (for example, see {{s|3|Nephi|27|19-22}}, {{s||Mosiah|23|22}}, {{s||Ether|4|19}}). Latter-day Saints invi27 KB (4,758 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ==Matthew Roper, "Nephi's Neighbors: Some LDS Perspectives on Book of Mormon Peoples and Pre-Columb ...Their presentation (complete with video footage) shows the plausibility of Nephi's account of their travels through the wilderness, and the unlikelihood tha6 KB (853 words) - 15:56, 13 April 2024
- *...there is one God and one Shepherd over all the earth ({{s|1|Nephi|13|41}}). ...f the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one God, without end.... ({{s|2|Nephi|31|21}}).6 KB (909 words) - 14:12, 13 April 2024