2 Turn, all ye Gentiles, from your wicked ways; and repent of your evil doings, of your lyings and deceivings, and of your whoredoms, and of your secret abominations, and your idolatries, and of your murders, and your priestcrafts, and your envyings, and your strifes, and from all your wickedness and abominations, and come unto me, and be baptized in my name, that ye may receive a remission of your sins, and be filled with the Holy Ghost, that ye may be numbered with my people who are of the house of Israel.
I guess this is a good list of stuff to guard yourself against and stay away from. Some of them are so large that they aren't an issue. I need to still work on envyings and strifes. And of course we all make idols in our lives, like the TV... I'm better with that one, but not perfect yet.
Mormon 9
29 See that ye are not baptized unworthily; see that ye partake not of the sacrament of Christ unworthily; but see that ye do all things in worthiness, and do it in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God; and if ye do this, and endure to the end, ye will in nowise be cast out.
These two go together, both about baptism and worthiness. I love it when that happens.
30 Behold, I speak unto you as though I spake from the dead; for I know that ye shall have my words.
31 Condemn me not because of mine imperfection, neither my father, because of his imperfection, neither them who have written before him; but rather give thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you our imperfections, that ye may learn to be more wise than we have been.
I like this. Don't judge me by what my father has done. Learn from my mistakes. There are some people who can learn from the mistakes of others, but I suspect most people can take the warning, but do it anyway and learn from their own. It's unfair to say that since the father committed adultery that the son will too, but people make that generalization all the time.
32 And now, behold, we have written this record according to our knowledge, in the characters which are called among us the reformed Egyptian, being handed down and altered by us, according to our manner of speech.
33 And if our plates had been sufficiently large we should have written in Hebrew; but the Hebrew hath been altered by us also; and if we could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye would have had no imperfection in our record.
Why would the language matter in making it perfect? Can they express things more clearly in Hebrew?
34 But the Lord knoweth the things which we have written, and also that none other people knoweth our language; and because that none other people knoweth our language, therefore he hath prepared means for the interpretation thereof.
Good thing too.
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If you were told to write a journal in Chinese, would it be so flowing as you write in English?
Ummm, NO! I would still try and do it, but it would be way worse. I would probably just read one or two verses and make terrible comments! That's a good idea though.
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