HoosierGuy Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 Last night I read the last three chapters of Moroni and finished the Book of Mormon for the first time. I started out in December reading it online on lds.org and switched over to reading the book after I got a copy from the missionaries in February. I think I was about to start Alma when I got a copy from the missionaries. Wow, I love every chapter in the BoM. I love so many of the prophets. I am so grateful for Nephi and his father Lehie. My heroes are Abinidi and the Anti-Nephi-Lehies. My hero is Alma, so evil, he changed, and then so much love trying to bring people onto the Lord and Heavenly Father. After reading this book, I know - Justice must be served. Some one must pay for our sins. Either us (and we will not return to our Heavenly Father) or Jesus. There is only one road back to our Heavenly Father - thru Jesus. Pray, repent, be baptized, FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY. We must exercise all those words in our life. What a book Alma is. It felt like I went to war and back with Alma and the others. It makes me want to go into towns and start yelling - Repent! Get baptized! Pray! Walk the narrow and righteous path! And of course there is King Benjamin and Mosiah. Seems like ages since I read about them. I know King Benjamin's speech is one of the great speeches in history. And Mosiah, wasn’t it him that told his people not to prosecute those not in the church? Wasn't it him that made laws equal to those in and out of the church? I'm ready to start 1st Nephi again but, I want to read the D&C and New Testament now. Ok, I'm going to read the BoM again along with the D&C and New Testament! Nephi, Moroni, Mormon, Alma, King Benjamin, Mosiah, so many others, I am so grateful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningStar Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 Good job! We're about to finish it for the third time as a family. :) I love The Book of Mormon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
utcowboy Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 I have to say Hoosierguy that your excitment for the BoM is catchy. Just reading your post make me want to go home and read it again. Thank you for your growing testimony and I wish you the best in your searching and learning of the truth of Jesus Christ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixpacktr Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 You're right--it is just a great book. Love it with all my heart. We are reading it as a family now, and just finished the story of Ammon, Aaron, Omner, Himni and the Anti-Nephi-Lehis. Now that was a people that truly loved and trusted in the Lord. Now on to Alma, Amulek, and Zeezrom visiting the Zoramites, then his admontions to his sons. Some of my favorite chapters in all of the BoM (faith, prayer, the joy of righteous living, etc.). I know that our friends of other faiths think we are blasphemous for even believing that God could have other scripture for us to learn and love, but if anyone would read it with the intent of learning, the spirit just pervades the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepychick Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 I love seeing how excited you are over reading it, Im glad you got through reading it......You will have jsut as much fun reading the rest............congrats on finishing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierGuy Posted April 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 Oops! Should be "Finished" and not "Finnished". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tomk Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 Hoosier: "Congrats" Each time through now, you will notice things you never noticed before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inthearmsofsleep Posted April 9, 2008 Report Share Posted April 9, 2008 Congratulations! I remember the first time I read it... I was amazed that it took me so long to even attempt to do so. I'm reading it again right now (in the "plain english reference to the Book of Mormon" by timothy B. Wilson) and I get what you mean about the book of Alma. It's so.... EPIC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misshalfway Posted April 9, 2008 Report Share Posted April 9, 2008 Last night I read the last three chapters of Moroni and finished the Book of Mormon for the first time. I started out in December reading it online on lds.org and switched over to reading the book after I got a copyfrom the missionaries in February. I think I was about to start Alma whenI got a copy from the missionaries. Wow, I love every chapter in the BoM. I love so many of the prophets.I am so grateful for Nephi and his father Lehie. My heroes are Abinidi andthe Anti-Nephi-Lehies. My hero is Alma, so evil, he changed, and then so much love trying to bring people onto the Lord and Heavenly Father. After reading this book, I know - Justice must be served. Some one must pay for our sins. Either us (and we will not return to our Heavenly Father) or Jesus. There is only one road back to our Heavenly Father - thru Jesus. Pray, repent, be baptized, FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY. We must exercise all those words in our life. What a book Alma is. It felt like I went to war and back with Alma and the others. It makes me want to go into towns and start yelling - Repent! Get baptized! Pray! Walk the narrow and righteous path! And of course there is King Benjamin and Mosiah. Seems like ages since I read about them. I know King Benjamin's speech is one of the great speeches in history. And Mosiah, wasn’t it him that told his people not to prosecute those not in the church? Wasn't it him that made laws equal to those in and out of the church? I'm ready to start 1st Nephi again but, I want to read the D&C and NewTestament now. Ok, I'm going to read the BoM again along with the D&C and New Testament! Nephi, Moroni, Mormon, Alma, King Benjamin, Mosiah, so many others, I am so grateful.Awesome! This was my favorite post all day!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a-train Posted April 9, 2008 Report Share Posted April 9, 2008 Ahh, but we will never finish. -a-train Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pam Posted April 9, 2008 Report Share Posted April 9, 2008 I have to say Hoosierguy that your excitment for the BoM is catchy. Just reading your post make me want to go home and read it again. Thank you for your growing testimony and I wish you the best in your searching and learning of the truth of Jesus Christ. Doesn't it though. Hoosier is truly an amazing person. It did put a desire in me to read it again after Hoosier's enthusiasm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly3278 Posted April 9, 2008 Report Share Posted April 9, 2008 Congratulations HoosierGuy! :) I haven't been able to read the whole Book of Mormon yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misshalfway Posted April 9, 2008 Report Share Posted April 9, 2008 I love this thread! Prolly cuz I love the BofM!!! I remember the early days, when I was first discovering the richness of the words. YUMMY! You should see my first quad.....literally worn out with cover hanging by a thread! This book has literally made more difference to my life that anything else. It has helped me love the Bible and understand it in richer, more meaningful ways. It has helped me with my inner and constant efforts with my character, as well as understanding the nature of men and things. And more than anything, it has been the avenue with which Father has answered my most sincerest of prayers. Those words are so powerful! And those people! How real they all are to me. Nephi sometimes says the very words in my heart. 2 Nephi 4, for example. And how can you not love Mormon and Moroni as you realize what a profound gift they sacrificed so much to give to us today? Anyway, I am going on and on.....and I could for days! :) Forgive me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tubaloth Posted April 11, 2008 Report Share Posted April 11, 2008 I want to read the D&C and New Testament now. Ok, I'm going to read the BoM again along with the D&C and New Testament! Congrats on your new love for the Book of Mormon. That’s kind of how you know you have "become" Mormon. I was going to add. The D&C is a different kind of read (as you probably have figured out by now). There is no story to follow, no great war battle. It’s a series of Revelations given at different times, to different people (but mostly to Joseph Smith). I do suggest you get some commentary for the D&C, if it is just the Institute manual.The biggest struggle with some type of commentary, is that there is so much more commentary then there is scripture to read (so you end up spending more time with the commentary then with the actually scriptures). So you have to find a balance. I’m not really that worried that you use the full D&C manual to get everything out of the D&C, but AT LEAST use the manual to read the background information for each section. Once you realize the setting and who the revelation was given it, it makes 10 times more sense! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latter Days Guy Posted April 11, 2008 Report Share Posted April 11, 2008 Oops! Should be "Finished" and not "Finnished". Maybe he's from Finland and has just finished reading the Finnish translation of the BOM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemidakota Posted April 12, 2008 Report Share Posted April 12, 2008 Last night I read the last three chapters of Moroni and finished the Book of Mormon for the first time. I started out in December reading it online on lds.org and switched over to reading the book after I got a copyfrom the missionaries in February. I think I was about to start Alma whenI got a copy from the missionaries. Wow, I love every chapter in the BoM. I love so many of the prophets.I am so grateful for Nephi and his father Lehie. My heroes are Abinidi andthe Anti-Nephi-Lehies. My hero is Alma, so evil, he changed, and then so much love trying to bring people onto the Lord and Heavenly Father. After reading this book, I know - Justice must be served. Some one must pay for our sins. Either us (and we will not return to our Heavenly Father) or Jesus. There is only one road back to our Heavenly Father - thru Jesus. Pray, repent, be baptized, FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY. We must exercise all those words in our life. What a book Alma is. It felt like I went to war and back with Alma and the others. It makes me want to go into towns and start yelling - Repent! Get baptized! Pray! Walk the narrow and righteous path! And of course there is King Benjamin and Mosiah. Seems like ages since I read about them. I know King Benjamin's speech is one of the great speeches in history. And Mosiah, wasn’t it him that told his people not to prosecute those not in the church? Wasn't it him that made laws equal to those in and out of the church? I'm ready to start 1st Nephi again but, I want to read the D&C and NewTestament now. Ok, I'm going to read the BoM again along with the D&C and New Testament! Nephi, Moroni, Mormon, Alma, King Benjamin, Mosiah, so many others, I am so grateful.I commend you on a job well done. The point on reading any works if we can work walk away learning something new and apply its teaching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crytsprospect Posted April 12, 2008 Report Share Posted April 12, 2008 congrats I still have not but will for sure this year..... before July now is my goal..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavenguard Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 I just wanted to throw in... Don't forget the Old Testament! I've been reading it. I just finished 1 Kings the other day. It's got a lot of interesting stories in there too, and it also makes me think a lot about why does God do this and that, why do the people keep sinning, etc, which is relevant to us even today, because God is timeless, and we still sin today =p I know a lot of people just read the NT without the OT, thinking that Jesus makes the Old Testament obsolete, but I decided to read the OT because that's the backbone/foundation/history on which Jesus' ministry was built, was it not? Therefore, I think the Old Testament is for everyone, not just our Jewish friends :) But I congratulate you on finishing reading the book. That's a lot of stick-to-it-ness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skalenfehl Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 I love the book of Alma. Alma, Amulek and the four sons of Mosiah sure went through a lot didn't they? I agree Heavenguard. The OT is a wonderful record with lots of great stories. My first recollection of OT stories was as a boy reading a big white book that my Mom used to have. It was an illustrated book and I really enjoyed reading it. I'd love to read it again just to bring back the memories. I still read the OT though. There's a lot to master from the lessons it teaches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemidakota Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 I do love the last 12-minor prophets in seeing there limited writings concerning not only Israel but Mount Zion in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanhin Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 Maybe he's from Finland and has just finished reading the Finnish translation of the BOM That's what I read for my personal study! Though I'm only half-finnish(ed)...Vanhin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinGirl87 Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 I started reading the BoM (for the first time) a week or two ago from the beginning and I'm already at Alma. The book of Alma is so LONG that I wanted something different too and read 4th Nephi, Ether and Moroni. So it leaves only the books of Alma, Helaman. 3rd Nephi and Mormon to be read. I got my BoM copy about two years ago, but I only read it from here and there before this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemidakota Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Yes, Alma islong but well worth the time. Congrats though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostnfound Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 okay to those that have read through the book of mormon more than once..how many times have you read the holy bible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenamarie Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 okay to those that have read through the book of mormon more than once..how many times have you read the holy bible?I have read both. I'm unsure as to how many times, but I have read them both. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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