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 | | Three principal events are common to both Nephite and Old World sources: (1) the first year of the reign of Zedekiah, King of Judah; (2) the birth of Christ; and (3) the death of Christ. | | | This would mean that because the crucifixion of Christ (presumably in early April) occurred in the first Nephite month, the Nephites probably shifted their calendar to begin the first month in April at the same time they began reckoning time from the birth of Christ. | | | This theory assumes that the third system of Nephite reckoning began on the very day of the birth of Christ, which is not explicitly stated in the Book of Mormon but is consistent with Sorenson's conclusions above. |
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http://www.mindspring.com/~kimball3/chronology.html
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| | Alma 2 |
| | As the dominant religion, and one believing in social stratification, it is not a far stretch to see Nephite religion as persecuted, and relegated to the lowest and least empowered levels of society, if it were allowed to continue at all. | | | Their basic tenets of their belief system are antithetical to Nephite religion. | | | Note that at the time of the engagement, the majority of the Nephites had not yet emerged from the river (see verses 33 and 34). |
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http://frontpage2000.nmia.com/~nahualli/LDStopics/Alma/Alma2.htm
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| | Helaman 5 |
| | Aminadab’s background in Nephite religion taught him the basic symbols and religious language and ideas, so he is able to interpret that they were speaking with angels. | | | As noted before, it is unlikely that all of the Nephites had left the land, and so this mission to the Lamanites was a mission to a different political unit, but quite likely to a number of people who had previously lived under Nephite rule and religion. | | | He has built up the Nephite understanding of religion and the atoning Messiah in earlier parts of his text, but now he is moving towards the New World mission of the atoning Messiah. |
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http://frontpage2000.nmia.com/~nahualli/LDStopics/Helaman/Helaman5.htm
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| | Meridian Magazine :: Science and Religion :: The Nephite Calendar |
| | Tvedtnes, John A., "A Nephite Feast of Tabernacles" in Tinkling Cymbals (Provo: n.p. | | | A detailed model for the Nephite Calendar from the time of Lehi to Christ's appearance to the Nephites has been presented which is totally self-consistent with other dates published by this author for the departure of Lehi, the birth and death of Christ, and all internal Nephite dates of the Book of Mormon. | | | Thus, it was a rare day indeed, which is another witness both that we have found the correct day for his speech, that the Nephite year is correct, and that the Nephites indeed used the Hebrew calendar for their feasts. |
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http://www.ldsmag.com/sci_rel/040114nephite.html
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| | Prophecies in the Book of Mormon |
| | Nephite ideas were changed forever (see Omni 1:12-19 and later books). | | | The Nephite world has its roots in the decay of ancient Israel in the sixth century BC. | | | (Note that the Nephites are referred to as "Christian" because of their heritage, but their behavior did not always reflect this (see Helaman 11:21 — the process began as early as Helaman 6:8). |
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http://www.whyprophets.com/prophets/news.htm
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| | Nephite army sizes coincided with general demographic growth: Armies numbered in the thousands in the first century B.C. and in the tens of thousands in the fourth century A.D. It appears that Book of Mormon military organization was aristocratic and dominated by a highly trained hereditary elite. | | | Wars and destructions were brought upon the Nephites because of the contentions, murderings, idolatry, whoredoms, and abominations "which were among themselves," while those who were "faithful in keeping the commandments of the Lord were delivered at all times" from captivity, death, or unbelief (Alma 50:21-22). | | | Certain elements of the Israelite patterns of "holy war" were continued in the Book of Mormon, such as the important ancient idea that success in war was due fundamentally to the will of God and the righteousness of the people (Alma 2:28; 44:4-5; 50:21; 56:47; 57:36; 58:33; Morm. |
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http://www.mindspring.com/~kimball3/warfare.html
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| | ~~ Mormonism: THREE Nephites -- Immortal, Indestructible |
| | Nephite #3: In 1960 he sent a letter to church members saying that it's OK to exaggerate your needs to the bishop, as long as you have genuine needs of some sort. | | | Mormon scholars believe that the Nephites have received direct communication from the Heavenly Father, even such which is is not known to any mormon primates, seers and revelators. | | | One Nephite left the land shortly after Jesus appeared to the Aztecs as the god Quezalcoatl. |
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http://nowscape.com/mormon/3nephites.htm
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| | Nephite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Nephites, initially a righteous people, eventually fell into wickedness, and were utterly destroyed by their rivals the Lamanites circa A.D. Most members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that the Nephites were a historic people. | | | In the Book of Mormon, the Nephites are a people descended from or associated with Nephi, a prophet who traveled with his family from Jerusalem to the Western Hemisphere circa 600 B.C. at the urging of God. | | | However, most mainstream archeologists argue that there is currently no compelling evidence that this group existed. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephite
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| | MoBlo |
| | More appealing to our view of the Nephites may be the fact that they tried to explain religious doctrines to the surrounding people, but Nephite view of religion required a tribal religion style approach. | | | Not that it didn’t, but perhaps not ever aspect of Nephite culture or tradition was equally divine. | | | This may be especially true if the heart of Nephite religion at this time was kept within a theocratic priest class. |
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http://moblo.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_moblo_archive.html
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| | Mormonism Research Ministry - Articles - Are Ancient Coins Mentioned in the Book of Mormon? |
| | The reference to 'Nephite coinage' in the chapter heading to Alma 11 is not part of the original text, and is mistaken. | | | The introduction to Alma chapter 11 states that these are "Nephite coins and measures." This explanation comes to us via James Talmage, a Mormon apostle who was commissioned to add both chapter headings and footnotes to the Book of Mormon. | | | History shows that there was no coinage in the Western world during the supposed time of Nephites and Lamanites despite the fact that there should be if the Book of Mormon is an actual history of real people and real events. |
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http://www.mrm.org/multimedia/text/ancient-coins.html
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| | BOM--Ancient or Modern? |
| | Rather than discrediting the Book of Mormon, the fact that the Nephite prophets quoted or paraphrased certain parts of the Bible is entirely consistent with the practices of the biblical writers. | | | This lack of knowledge about the ancient civilizations of the Americas undoubtedly explains the fact that for many years after the Book of Mormon was published, it was criticized for asserting that advanced cultures existed anciently in the New World. | | | All of this is to say that the mere existence of parallels between the Book of Mormon and this or that nineteenth-century source does not automatically impugn the Nephite record. |
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http://ourworld-top.cs.com/mikegriffith1/id108.htm
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| | THE BOOK OF ZELPH - ANOTHER TESTAMENT OF THE BOOK OF MORMON |
| | And when the Nephite army did gatherest to eat, yea, they did contend one with another, for many churches were built upon the land, and the members of these churches desired to teach their beliefs unto others. | | | And the Nephite soldiers did argue over who's god was correct, and some desired to become Gadianton robbers. | | | And I did thinkest the people who did live like unto Laban, and the son of Abitch, and the whores, and Laman, and Lemuel, shall be the people of Onandagus, for they lived nearby Mount Balsac. |
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http://www.bookofzelph.com/sob/02.html
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| | LDS Forums @ JennySmith.net |
| | Nephite #1: They tried to kill him just for prophesying of the birth of the Son of God. | | | Later the Nephites and the Lamanites were also told of the coming of Jesus by Samuel, a Lamanite prophet. | | | Nephite #4: Samuel said that Christ would come to save all those who have faith in Him and keep His commandments. |
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http://forums.jennysmith.net/viewtopic.php?t=34
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| | Mosiah’s Legacy of Law: |
| | Think about this: the teachings of those who upheld priestcrafts had terrible consequences for the church and Nephite society generally and yet the church bore it with patience, and the government did not stop those who did "preach according to their belief". | | | Mosiah told his people that their laws had also "been given you by our fathers, which are correct, and which were given them by the hand of the Lord". | | | It is interesting to see how so much of the Book of Mormon dwells upon the period of Nephite self-government (92 BC to AD 29) and we might well ask ourselves 'Why?'. |
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http://www.ldsfreedomportal.net/bomlaws.htm
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| | Does Archaeology Support the Book of Mormon? |
| | For instance, while the Book of Mormon makes it clear that the rival Nephite and Lamanite civilizations were centered near the "narrow neck" of land (understood to be somewhere in Central America), it says that they agreed to meet for their epic final battle at the "hill Cumorah" (Mormon 6:1-6). | | | Their conclusions are based on a number of major problems that arise when one attempts to apply Book of Mormon descriptions of travel times and population growth to the vast territories of North and South America. | | | Matheny noted that a 1983 Science magazine article describing barley found in a pre-Columbian setting is wrongly claimed as support for the Book of Mormon because the grain described was not a domesticated old world barley. |
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http://www.irr.org/mit/bomarch1.html
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| | GS Mormon, Nephite Prophet |
| | A Nephite prophet, military general, and record keeper in the Book of Mormon. | | | Mormon was slain along with most of the Nephite nation. | | | Chapters 1-2 tell of Ammaron, a prophet of the Nephites, instructing Mormon when and where to get the plates. |
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http://scriptures.lds.org/gsm/mrmnnpht
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| | Mormanity: Sherem the Foreigner? |
| | I think it is a shame that the "there came among the Nephites" reference regarding Sherem is allowing overzealous apologists to wrest the scriptures to be interpreted in a manner different than what is plain to the reader (remember, Nephi and Jacob were known for their plainness e.g. | | | However, that still does not expressly say his education was that of a native Nephite who grew up among them or that of an outsider who came to the Nephites and then was educated in the language. |
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http://mormanity.blogspot.com/2005/09/sherem-foreigner.html
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| | Where the Nephite lands were? |
| | Many in the LDS church have said to me, even very learned men and leaders of the church have taught that no bodies have ever been recovered that could possibly be Nephite in the state of New York and that the last battle of the Nephites could not have taken place there. | | | And they were led by a man whose name was Coriantumr; and he was a descendant of Zarahemla; and he was a dissenter from among the Nephites; and he was a large and a mighty man. | | | There were other tribes here before the Nephites arrived, this is even recorded in the Book of Mormon by Nephi when they first arrived in North America. |
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http://www.nephiproject.com/_disc3/0000007b.htm
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| | Is the Book of Mormon historically true? |
| | Thus we are not able to identify Nephite cities, and for this we should blame those priests, not the Book of Mormon. | | | From their point of view, there was no Book of Mormon or Latter Day Saint religion for them to suppress. | | | Are we being asked to believe that Nephite sheep and fig remains have vanished from the earth, but Nephite tapir and avocado remains survived? |
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http://www.lds-mormon.com/aa.shtml
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| | ~~MORMONISM~~~~ ~~ Mormonism: THREE Nephites Sighting Report -- Immortal, Indestructible ~~ |
| | The thought hadn't occured to me that that was who they were, I just asked them who they were and why they dressed that way. | | | During the parade I was about to bare my breasts for some beads, I must have been possessed, when the Nephite passed before me as a blurry image (I could not see his face). | | | Remarks I am certain I saw Nephite #3 one rainy night in one of the bathrooms I replace urinal smell-good things at Waffle House #421. |
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http://nowscape.com/mormon/thank-nephite-report.htm
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| | Book of Mormon Populations |
| | Such studies, as well as evidence from the Book of Mormon itself (see Scriptural References to Population Numbers), demonstrate that the Nephite and Jaredite populations were relatively small compared to modern populations. | | | But a total Nephite population of about a quarter million people, with armies in the tens of thousands, also sounds reasonable in light of our growing realization that demographic analysis seems often to suggest that descendants of Nephi's founding group may have been a relatively small population in a sea of other peoples." | | | He concludes "it is not hard to imagine a significant population of Nephites in Mormon's day [350 AD].... |
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http://www.geocities.com/jwarr87480/population1.html
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| | Gospel Doctrine:"I Speak unto You as if Ye Were Present" |
| | Even the Lord's disciples, the three Nephites who had been allowed to tarry, had been taken from this wicked scene. | | | Hugh Nibley said, "Mormon and Moroni supply the epilogue to the Book of Mormon, the son drawing freely on his father's notes and letters. | | | Their awful guilt leaps out in their instant resentment of any criticism of themselves: "...when I speak the word of God with sharpness they tremble and anger against me (Moroni 9:4). |
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http://www.meridianmagazine.com/gospeldoctrine/bom/041026bom44.html
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| | Nephite Stature |
| | Perhaps the origin of word "Nephites" is the Hebrew word NPILIM or NPLIM, which according to Young's Analytical Concordance is translated three times in the Bible as "giants". | | | 37 Therefore the true believers in Christ, and the true worshipers of Christ, (among whom were the three disciples of Jesus who should tarry) were called Nephites, and Jacobites, and Josephites, and Zoramites. | | | In the final battle at Cumorah, the Nephites were defeated. |
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http://www.vorsoft.com/faith/bigfoot/stature.htm
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| | Response to Budvarson by Sperry - Chapter 20 - SHIELDS |
| | There are some matters that are kept sacred between a prophet and his God, and the details of the use of the Urim and Thummim are among those things known only to the seer in whose custody they are. | | | Now, while we are about it, let us also dispose of the notion that the Lord, the Angel Moroni, or other divine beings are responsible for the punctuation, spelling, capitalization and other details of the dress in which the Book of Mormon appeared in 1830. | | | The claims made by the Mormon people for the Book of Mormon are now considered on pages 9 to 23. |
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http://www.shields-research.org/Books/Sperry/Budv-20.html
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| | Dave's Mormon Inquiry Weblog |
| | The big problem, you see, is that the Nephite chronology counts 600 years from the accession of Zedekiah (598 or 597 BC) to the birth of Christ (dated between 6 BC and 1 BC). | | | At first I dismissed it as just another adventure in creative Mormon iconography, but lo and behold the author of the article also wrote the Encyclopedia of Mormonism entry on Book of Mormon Chronology (conveniently posted at his website) -- so I reached over and pulled it right off my bookshelf. | | | The Encyclopedia entry starts off with these two sentences: The Book of Mormon contains a chronology that is internally consistent over the thousand-year Nephite history. |
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http://radio.weblogs.com/0128987/2004/02/02.html
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| | GS Lehi, Nephite Military Commander |
| | In the Book of Mormon, a Nephite military commander (Alma 43: 35-53; 49: 16-17; 52: 27-36; 53: 2; 61: 15-21). |
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http://scriptures.lds.org/gsl/lhnphtml
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| | Why Should We Expect to Find Jewish DNA in Native Americans? |
| | Some will object that according to the Book of Ether, all the Jaredites were killed but two (Ether 15), but this is the understanding of the author of the Book of Ether, who could not have known everything that happened on the entire continent. | | | Some will say that the whole Book of Mormon is about the Nephites, who are Israelites lost from their parent nation! | | | But, Israel is a cultural, religious body, not usually a monogenetic body. |
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http://www.jefflindsay.com/bme13.shtml
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| | THE BOOK OF ZELPH - ANOTHER TESTAMENT OF THE BOOK OF MORMON |
| | And their exists a gang of lawless robbers and thieves, who swear allegience to no -ites, and who do follow after the lawlessness of Gadianton, and they do call themselves Gadianton robbers. | | | And I shall commence my life story at age eighteen, for I could begin earlier, but it is that my childhood was uneventful, for I was a Nephite child and did the things Nephite children do, even boring things. | | | And it came to pass that I turned my head and beheld a Gadianton robber, who did havest a spear. |
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http://www.bookofzelph.com/sob/01.html
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| | -ihah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The suffix is well-known among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is sometimes used whimsically to give a name a Book of Mormon feel. | | | Some have interpreted it as a variant of the Tetragrammaton, analogous to Jah, but it does not appear in Hebrew names outside of the Book of Mormon. | | | For instance, Pat Bagley's book I Spy a Nephite (similar to Where's Waldo, but with a Book of Mormon theme) features a dog named Rover-hah. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihah
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| | Latter Day Designs Vinyl Figures |
| | Moroni was the last of the valiant Nephite prophets and eyewitness to their total destruction. | | | The Book of Mormon tells of Abinadi's powerful testimony of redemption through Christ the Lord, "...he would not deny the commandments of God, having sealed the truth of his words by his death." | | | Captain Moroni became the commander of the Nephite army at the young age of 25. |
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http://www.lehi.com/vin1.html
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| | ~~ Mormonism: THREE Nephites Sighting Report |
| | Your answers will be shared with Mormon scholars and with BYU University. | | | tell us if you saw any one of the 3 Nephites. | | | May we contact you at this email address if necessary? |
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http://nowscape.com/mormon/3nephite-report.htm
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| | Evening Telegraph: RACING: Nephite has a nose for trouble@ HighBeam Research |
| | And that was very much the case when his mount Nephite took a leaf out of master finisher Robbie Fowler's book by donning a nose strap to score at Newcastle yesterday - only to have the device ruled illegal. | | | RICHARD GUEST has occasionally seemed to have a nose for trouble during a controversial riding career. | | | He was fitted with a "nose-flare", modelled on the accessory made famous by the prolific Leeds and England striker, in order to improve his breathing. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:49899515&refid=holomed_1
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