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Mark 15:33 “At the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.”. For the first three hours, from 9 a.m. until noon, Christ hung on Golgotha with the sun shining brightly on him. Spurgeon comments, “There could be no mistake about the fact that he was really nailed to the cross for he was crucified in broad daylight.
Jan 27, 2012 · In 1995, one Edgar C. Snow, Jr. published “ Narrative Criticism and the Book of Mormon ,” reviewing how that approach “attempt [s] to isolate the narrative of a text from the real author of the text in an attempt to let a text speak for itself as much as possible.”. Snow discusses the roles of implied author, narrator, narratee, and ...
Nov 15, 2018 · But for one early reader, feeling drawn to the Book of Mormon meant walking hundreds of miles to find it before he even knew it existed. 1. In the summer of 1829, a man named Thomas B. Marsh received a prompting from the Holy Ghost that likely seemed very strange. 2 He later said that he felt an impression from the Spirit that he should make ...
President Thomas S. Monson: 'The Power of the Book of Mormon'. "If you are not reading the Book of Mormon each day, please do so. If you will read it prayerfully and with a sincere desire to know the truth, the Holy Ghost will manifest its truth to you. If it is true — and I solemnly testify that it is — then Joseph Smith was a prophet who ...
Nov 1, 2022 · A book can also be described by its genre. For instance, if it is a mystery, it can be suspenseful, while a romance might be described as heart-warming. Some words are more positive than others, and some can even be seen as negative. Basically though, it comes down to opinion and what a reader personally feels about a book.
We know many details about the timing of the translation of the Book of Mormon. We have firm evidence that Oliver Cowdery began working as Joseph Smith’s scribe on April 7, 1829, and that Joseph began dictating to Oliver at about Mosiah chapter 2. First in Harmony, Pennsylvania, and then at the home of Peter Whitmer in Fayette, New York, the translation progressed quickly and was finished by ...
Jan 25, 2018 · When describing his vision of the tree of life, Lehi said that people “did press forward through the mist of darkness, clinging to the rod of iron,” eventually reaching the tree of life (1 Nephi 8:24). Yet one wonders why they needed to “press forward” and “cling” to the rod, if they were simply walking through a level plain.