Friday, January 29, 2016

Book of Mormon Questions!

Everyone in the Church is studying the Book of Mormon this year!
I have added three things to my study and all three are about questions!
I found this book which has short chapters with great thoughts:
(quote from the intro to the book)
"Facts about Questions in the Book of Mormon... 
1) Sixty-one different individuals in the Book of Mormon--including prophets, missionaries, investigators, and apostates--ask questions.
2) Alma 5 has the most questions (42) of any chapter in the Book of Mormon. (Alma 30 is a distant second with 22)
3) Alma the Younger asks the most questions in the Book of Mormon.  He asks 103 questions, or 19% of all the questions in the book.  Even if Alma 5 were not included, Alma the Younger's questions would total more than anyone else's in the Book of Mormon. (Nephi is in 2nd place with 41 questions.)
4) The most commonly asked question has to do with how people remember--or forget--the Lord.  Variations of this question appear 26 times.
5) Jesus Christ asked 35 direct questions in the Book of Mormon."

Then I learned about this website from MaryAnn:
You can sign up to receive a KnowWhy email each weekday with a posed question and scholarly answer.
I thought this one was particularly interesting:

Who called Ishmael's Burial place Nahom?

Link: http://www.knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/who-called-ishmaels-burial-place-nahom

And finally our stake president has asked us to read the Book of Mormon with this challenge:
"To make your reading more meaningful, you are asked to select a gospel topic that you want to understand more deeply or pose a gospel question for which you want to search for answers.  While you are reading, identify all the scriptures which address the topic or question.  After completing the reading, study the relevant verses and prepare a one page summary of what you have learned.  I have done this and found it very worthwhile.  My scripture study was more meaningful and more rewarding.  Yours will be too!"

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