0 Helaman : Intolerance

From the west sea, even unto the east; it being a day's journey for a Nephite. Helaman 4:7 4:7

Trivia: What two guys in the Book of Helaman stood in the midst of a fire but were not harmed?

Helaman : Intolerance (12)

  1. Pacumeni was executed for causing rebellion and trying "to destroy the liberty of the people." 1:8
  2. The Nepites "mixed with the Lamanites" and became "wicked, wild, and ferocious, yea, even becoming Lamanites." 3:16
  3. Those who rebelled against the Nephites (Mormons) were killed or "driven out of the land." 4:2
  4. The Nephites became "a wicked people ... wicked even like unto the Lamanites [Native Americans]." 4:22
  5. The Nephites "began to disbelieve ... and the judgments of God did stare them in the face." (God doesn't like disbelievers.) 4:23
  6. God withdrew his miraculous protection from the Nephites because "they had fallen into a state of unbelief." 4:25
  7. The only way anyone can be saved is "through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ." This statement was supposedly made in 30 BCE! 5:9
  8. Those who reject the word of God (the Bible and Book of Mormon?) and "all the preaching and prophesying" are "grossly wicked". 6:2
  9. Those who believe will be saved; those who don't will be damned. 14:29
  10. God loved the Nephites, but hated the Lamanites "because of the iniquity of the tradition of their fathers." 15:3-4
  11. Dwindling in unbelief 15:11, 15
  12. If the Nephites don't repent, God will kill them all for their unbelief. 15:17

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