Taklanika

Sorry my last post was a little off topic, but I didn't think that the question merited staring a new thread. You have all been very helpful in your replies to my original question.

Sorry for the mistake. I was actually a bit suprised at the amount of Bible quotations being used on a Mormon site. Is there a particular Bible that anyone could suggest? There are about 50 different translations at the Barnes and Noble by my house. Also what are the Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price?

Thank you all for your insights into this question. They are all helpful and well thought out. I still don't like the idea of killing in the name of God though, even though it is in the Bible. I have to admit that I haven't read the Bible yet. I am studying different religions and decided to look into Mormonism before the Bible because the Book of Mormon is shorter...not really a good reason I know.

I am looking into religion, including Mormonism, and have read through the Book of Mormon, which I found at the library, and I have a few questions. I will start with the one that bothered me the most, and I hope that someone can explain. Why did Nephi have to kill Laban? Okay I know that it says so that they needed the brass plates, and that it would have been bad for people to find out that Lehi and his family had escaped from Jerusalem, but in other parts of the book God just makes people pass out drunk so that others can escape from prison, or he strikes people "dumb" so that they cant speak. Couldn't he have just done that to laban instead of having a good person commit murder? I am not antagonistic against the book at all, and I don't think that it is evil, but I just can't wrap my head around this. I have only read it once and quickly at that, so I thought that I would ask some people who presumably have studied these types of things in classes and church meetings etc. Thanks