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We love you too!

Bless you, brother!

I'm grateful for your faith and that the Gospel is in China. Heavenly Father loves ALL of His children. I would rather be in a room with a few of His saints from anywhere in the world than in any other place on earth. God speed His work around the world. Looking forward, with all of you, to the triumphant return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I've read the Book of Mormon multiple times and I really enjoy these new videos the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is putting out now. And I particularly appreciate your comment that "We always grow much more in the waiting than in the receiving." That's exactly what I needed to hear this weekend, this day! Thank you for sharing your thoughts Andrew.

Amazing! Thank you for sharing your thoughts. That helped me a lot. 👏🏽

Good insights

Mike don't start

You do realized the techniques they used to build the boat was invented a thousand years later right?

@ray salmon 1 Nephi 18: 2 Now I, Nephi, did not work the timbers after the manner which was learned by men, neither did I build the ship after the manner of men; but I did build it after the manner which the Lord had shown unto me; wherefore, it was not after the manner of men It doesn't matter how ship building worked at the time. He didn't build it like people did at the time. Are you saying an all powerful God cannot tell someone how to build a boat?

@@KnuttyEntertainment People will continue to grasp at straws and try to find the Book of Mormon at fault with ANYTHING,....... like by now I realize that it's not just that they don't believe or aren't convinced, but they actively are seeking ANY argument they can to try to discredit it or show it to be false and untrue. But the Book speaks for itself! The list of supposed "anachronisms" used to be bigger too, but with more and more discoveries in the Americas, we are learning that literally many of the things once said to be anachronisms are actually not at all. Take for instance the Vered Jericho Sword. Steel sword from 7th century BCE. Sword of Laban is basically now no longer anachronistic. And many other examples to. I personally believe that many things we think also might be anachronistic today for the Book of Mormon times in ancient America will be simply proven to be acceptable and true in the future. After all though, I have my testimony from the Holy Ghost. Luke 24:32 King James Version (KJV) 32 And they said one to another, Did not our *heart* *burn* *within* *us* , while he talked with us by the way, and while he *opened* *to* *us* *the* *scriptures* ? That is how we know these things are true. By the witness of the Holy Ghost, in whatever way Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ choose to speak with us, be it in our mind, our thoughts, a burning in the bosom, or some other way. I testify this is true, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen!

@@KnuttyEntertainment FYI, ray salmon is only here to be mean to people. Explanations go ignored by him.

@Jay Britton Fisher Thank you, I am aware, but behold, God has commanded us to profess the truth unto all men. And why command us if we cannot accomplish it, as Nephi said, and why profess if they cannot be saved? Even the hardest in heart can receive. Nephi and Lehi did not withhold their words from Laman and Lemuel, and their hearts were softened. Even the Anti-christs Sherem and Korihor, admitted to the truth, even if their repentance did come too late. And also the anti-nephi-lehitites. Those who know the truth need not have to told unto them, so I will continue, even if I am bombarded with slings and arrows as was Samuel the Lamanite.

@@raysalmon6566 It is fun to see how the anti's move the goalpost. For over 100 years it was "the items listed in the land bountiful didnt exist anywhere near the Arabia" Then in the lat 20th century all things like fresh water, honey, wild fruit, ore, etc that is list is all found in an exact location that matches perfectly with the described area they travel. So now we hear. "Do some study on ship building at the time and see how you feel about it". Completely ignoring even that take is answered in the Book of Mormon. You are proving prophecies true. Thanks for helping my testimony of the restored gospel grow.

I also enjoy these videos; however, when I read the Book of Mormon this is not how I envisioned it. It takes away a little from the reader's imagination.

@@raysalmon6566 You know, when all anyone can do is slam something they don't like, it doesn't help their cause, it makes them look small and pitiful. It's easy to accuse someone of anything, without evidence or meaning. That's exactly the tactic Satan uses-he is an accuser, one who tears down. God, on the other hand, builds faith, rewards effort, and encourages industry, thrift, and obedience. Sadly, you are nothing more than Satan's minion. Accusing and stabbing and doing nothing of any good here. Try reading this wonderful book and take the time to get to know it. Dive into it and learn from its pages. I have done so for over 33 years, reading this book every day. I LOVE this book and have had marvelous experiences with it and with the Spirit and voice of God. It's easy to tear down and be negative and dismissive. Try building something instead. Try putting some effort into drawing closer to God and he will draw closer to you. You are better than this!

ray salmon Why are you even here, Ray? What purpose do you have in bringing your negativity and lies here?

Ehh..the Bible mini series is better. But this isn’t bad at all.

@@jmcglynn5273 You have followed Alma 32: 38-40 perfectly. 38 But if ye neglect the tree, and take no thought for its nourishment, behold it will not get any root; and when the heat of the sun cometh and scorcheth it, because it hath no root it withers away, and ye pluck it up and cast it out. 39 Now, this is not because the seed was not good, neither is it because the fruit thereof would not be desirable; but it is because your ground is barren, and ye will not nourish the tree, therefore ye cannot have the fruit thereof. 40 And thus, if ye will not nourish the word, looking forward with an eye of faith to the fruit thereof, ye can never pluck of the fruit of the tree of life. I pray that you will repent and not be cast off forever. There is still a chance. Don't go down this route you have started on because the end is not where you really want to be.

Indeed

@Mike Nephi obeyed the voice of the Lord immediately (quickly, swiftly) after hearing it. :)

@Mike How do you mean run?

@Mike obeying the lord's commandment is running away? who are the faithful people they should stay with? Are you referring to the people of Jerusalem that rejected Jeremiah and cast him to prison or the same people that wanted to take his fathers' life for warning them?

@Mike They didn't do it for safety, but because the Lord told them to. If the Lord wanted them to stay he would have protected them in any way he wanted (or not) in Jerusalem. He had a reason for bringing the people away and to the Americas. Those things don't have to make sense to us here, our ways are not His ways. We are instructed to be like Him, not the other way around.

Mike I appreciate your concern but in the several dozen times I have studied the book it is very clear that they left at the direction of the Lord and the Lord has full power to protect someone if it fulfills his purposes to do so.

Johanna Martínez Pardo u should be a catholic like the rest of your culture

I love Catholics. I have Catholic ancestors. I was in a Catholic youth group, even though I was not of your faith. I investigated the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I felt the Spirit testify of it's truthfulness and was baptized. I still love my Catholic friends. I love my Catholic grandfather. Let's celebrate our similarities and stand together against so much opposition to Christianity - and religion in general. Let us unite ❤️ as Christ would have us do. We can unitedly pray with faith in Him 🙏, labor 💪 to protect our religious freedom, and serve others, no matter their faith, lack of faith, or circumstances.

I guess you could say the BOM is the bomb.

@@raysalmon6566 Actually, we are reading the New Testament right now in Sunday Schools across the globe. We're in 1&2 Thessalonians right now, if you care to join us. I love Paul's joy and love he expresses in those books.

@@raysalmon6566 we read it every week

What if we mess up or fall into temptation?

@@Collin_Creates the Lord forgives us the way he does every time we mess up and gives us a chance to prove ourselves. The Lord is always there for us it's just the more we follow him the more he does for us. He's always there waiting for us to be more like him. And I know this because I'm always messing up and he's always there to pick me up and brush me off and tell me he's proud of me and the keep trying. The lord loves us no matter what and always will that's the most wonderful thing about him he'll always be there for us. But like I said the more we are like him the more were rewarded.

@@sherawarrior so if I do better works then you do, then I have a better reward then you in heaven?

@@Collin_Creates I'm not really sure I should be the one answering your questions because I'm still learning myself and trying to be more faithful to the Lord and his Commandments. But the way I understand and see it the more we do for the Lord the better we are rewarded, if it is rewards, it's just what is given to us because we are being good children.

@@sherawarrior do you believe God made laws? Like the ten commandments,

@@raysalmon6566 The Holy Ghost. You've felt the Holy Ghost before, right?

@@raysalmon6566 1 Corinthians 2:14 "the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."

They were stuck in Moses law and not desiring higher law. Sometimes we too are like the .. x-egyptian tribe style

@@raysalmon6566 "Jesus said the Holy spirit would not come to glorify itself." Wrong. You butchered it like an amateur who has never actually read scripture, not in any language. That's not what He said. Why didn't you cite the verse? Nobody wants to hear your version, especially when you come here to fight. Cite the actual verse, not your claim of what you think it says. Here - like this: cum autem venerit ille Spiritus veritatis docebit vos in omnem veritatem non enim loquetur a semet ipso sed quaecumque audiet loquetur et quae ventura sunt adnuntiabit vobis ille me clarificabit quia de meo accipiet et adnuntiabit vobis John 4:24 πνεῦµα ὁ θεός, καὶ τοὺς προσκυνοῦντας αὐτὸν ἐν πνεύµατι καὶ ἀληθείᾳ δεῖ προσκυνεῖν. Do you leave your flesh, bones and blood behind when you go to worship God at church? Yes or no?

@@robbhays8077 FYI, ray salmon is only here to bother people. He ignores any explanations we give him.

Arthr hslr I wish the BOM had more substantive support for me to believe in it. To each his own. I rejoice that you guys find comfort in the gospel.🙌🏽

@carbon273 there's plenty if you look for it. The problem is that much of the history of the natives of the Americas has been suppressed because it didn't line up with the official narrative of the Pre-Colombian Era both the good and the bad. There's a book you might find interesting called "He Walked The Americas" which is a compilation of Native stories that was compiled by someone who has no ties to the church. Even for some non-members the stories are believed to be stories of Jesus teaching the people on this side of the world.

jason c That’s interesting but two more things are more of an issue for me personally. The credibility of Joseph Smiths testimony and the theology of Latter Day Saints. So there’s 3 walls actually that block my path.🤔 Of the very little I know of Joseph Smiths testimony. He claimed to have seen the Father. Yet the Bible states: “No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.” ‭‭John‬ ‭1:18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ I know that Joseph Smith has his own unique translation of the KJV that the LDS don’t use upfront which is a bit sketchy (not just because it’s unique to their church but because LDS don’t use it upfront). It’s also convenient that he revised the Bible to place his name in there. It’s interesting to note that the Son was in the bosom of the Father and because of this, the Son has declared him. No offense, but I’m not sure how Smith can stack up to that. Christ stated himself: “Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father.” ‭‭John‬ ‭6:46‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ I talked to the missionaries about this because I was confused on that little detail and they said “He who is from God..” refers to the prophets who follow God. Which I don’t think is true either because they are just ministers to spread the gospel and messengers of God. Again I believe Christ was referring to himself. Still, even though I don’t adhere or up until now don’t agree to these pillars in LDS faith I genuinely view the brethren as my brothers and sisters. Though they may look to me not as one because I’m not baptized in the church under “proper authority”. I love this church dearly.

@@carbon273 as far as the Joseph Smith translation goes the reason the church doesn't use it is that it remains in the possession of The Community of Christ formerly known as The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It wasn't until sometime in the '80s that they allowed us to view the manuscript in it's entirety. Before that it there was a concern that it may have been tampered with do to their opposition to things like the fact Joseph taught polygamy, and that Joseph had taught that the time would come that the Saints would have to leave Nauvoo, and move west. Even now there's some debate as to whether Joseph finished the translation before he was killed. Although more and more lean towards it was in fact completed. I myself am a convert, and after becoming a member I took it upon myself to learn as much as I could about the church's history with an unbiased perspective. I dare say not many outside of the General Authorities of the church and it's history department know as much about the church's history as I do. Also being nearly half Native American myself I already knew a great deal about the history of my ancestors.

@@carbon273 If it's hard for you to reconcile Joseph Smith's testimony with biblical passages, remember that it can be hard to reconcile the biblical passages themselves; several refer to people seeing God. There must be deeper meaning to what seems evident on the surface. Even the two passages you cited appear contradictory at first glance; one has a sentence that says "no one" and another (from the same author) says "not..anyone...except". You've already drawn some additional meaning from John 6:46 to help understand John 1:18; consider that there is yet additional meaning that aligns with what John said. Of course the passages were originally written in another language and then translated, and it's easy for some things to be lost in translation. I do notice that the passage speak in past tense; even Latter-day Saints consider it to be a rare event when God is seen or when He actually speaks, literally, to man. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe in receiving truth from God through the Holy Ghost. For myself, I wouldn't even assume that the Bible was true scripture without a witness from God about it; many people accept the Bible simply because they were raised with it, though many other people were raised in different faith traditions and carry different assumptions. I originally assumed that both the Bible and Book of Mormon were true because I was raised with them, but as I grew to become an adult and eventually live on my own, I found more need, as time went on, to think for myself and find out from God whether they really were true scripture. Without that witness from Him, I think I would be highly skeptical of many parts of the Bible (and the Book of Mormon), but because I have received a witness from Him I instead simply seek understanding. As the years have passed I have received a witness from God many times over in many ways. I hope that you also receive such a witness from Him, and that once you do you will both increase in understanding and be patient while still seeking some answers. I am grateful for all I've received from God through the Church of Jesus Christ even though I've never had all of my questions answered immediately.

KevlarX2 you need to listen to president Nelson’s interview where he says nearly every night he receives revelation and writes it on his notepad on his nightstand.

So that it will be fresh in their mind.

Oh they press the snooze button. The Book of Mormon is Joseph Smith's giant, fictional snooze button. As Twain said: "All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle - keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate."

Joshua Snyder oh you’re right I’ll just stop believing what I know and have believed for my entire life because people find my scriptures boring.

You're so funny!

awesome astronaut Hey that totally makes sense! If they were 8 years in the wilderness.... they would stop for days at a time.... in that hot sun.... lots of time to dry the meat! Ive made jerky before with a food dehydrator.... you just put the thinly sliced meat in the heat and most of the moisture disapears.... and voila! Jerky!

awesome astronaut The Book of Mormon is a book of miracles and yet this theory is trying to say this process (of the meat becoming sweet) could only have been a natural one.

@@LiwaySaGu The Lord, even with his miracles, works through natural means. Is the Lord's instruction to Nephi, helping him build the ship, any less miraculous? Even with other help given by the Lord, it is a natural process to him. In the end though, it is still merely a theory, and if it is true, I do not feel that it belittles the scripture at all.

@@LiwaySaGu When you really consider everything that happens on the deepest levels, every single thing that occurs could be considered a miracle... The processes involved in making jerky is actually a miraculous thing!

@@armchairrocketscientist4934 great point, although it was the Lord that said "I will make thy food become sweet, that ye cook it not", so it was THE LORD that did the act of making the food sweet, not Nephi. I wouldn't think that he came down to make beef jerky for Nephi if Nephi could make the jerky by himself, especially with Nephi's character. The Lord did the act, so it must have been something Nephi couldn't do by himself.

I'm right there with ya! I wish they were all a little longer!

@Tipene Kipa-Thompson indeed. It would probably be as long as the ten commandments, which is about 6 hours.

@@BJ-rg8hj Give it up, dude.

You'll have to stick some fuzz on your face like they did to the Nephi actor. #fakebeard

Yah

@Aria Ramey Same here, but I don't plan on growing a beard as I am a lady. LOL

@@raysalmon6566 My, and because of that single coincidence, the whole Book is apparently devalidated. Forget the Book's Hebrew artstyle, complex story, non-19th century views, entire cities of cement discovered that the Book mentioned, the verification of the entirety of Lehi's route, the discovery of other ancient metal plates, and finally above all, the testimony of millions for over two centuries that the Book is true. Joseph Smith had a brother named Samuel, so the Book of Mormon is apparently false. Note: sarcasm is difficult to express in text.

awesome astronaut actually, if you read it, you would know it was true

Yes! Definitely read the book!

TJ Butler Why are you here if all you’re gonna do is antagonize? Do you really feel that threatened by the existence of other scripture?

Amen Brother

Better yet go see the musical!

Joshua Snyder The book is much better

Thanks for checking it out. What has stood out to you so far? Have you had a chance to read the Book of Mormon? These videos just touch the surface.

@@freebrownies I have read the Book of Mormon. What has stood out to me is how powerful faith can be.

@@kailaknight8826 So true! Thanks for sharing.

Kaila Knight well I was baptized about 30 years ago my life has completely changed I’m optimistic positive and I feel comfort every time I read the Book of Mormon Abraham is in Genis Old Testament and also Book Mormon pray about Book Mormon we pray Heavenly Father I ask thee or I thank thee and close in name of Jesus Christ children don’t know right from wrong as babies we baptize at age of age 8 cause by then they know difference and have been taught I love the gospel and am glad I’m a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for these latter days we have the fullness of the Gospel for these days I know and believe that God lives and is Resurrected

Skol .... And I'm Siggy the Viking!

@@BJ-rg8hj Some of us know the difference between novels and scripture. I wish you the best on figuring it out for yourself.

@@BJ-rg8hj A question for you: Has anything good come from your comments here?

@@BJ-rg8hj After so many comments, if there was any good that came from them you would see *some* indication, but all you've seen is faithful people either trying to help you or being annoyed that you are causing trouble. Nothing good has come from your comments. At best you're wasting time, and at worst you're inspiring negative feelings in others. What you are casting has nothing to do with truth, which is naturally why it hasn't taken root. I do not know the "Synagogue of Satan". I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ. He is "the way, the truth, and the life", and I see God's hand in the Church. I experience so many things from day to day and from year to year that are a witness to me of God's power in my life, as great blessings. I could tell you all about it if you were genuinely interested in truth.

Hahaha that's what I thought at first

That's too funny, I totally missed that when I watched for the first time.

I didn't oh well lol

lol

Me too! I'm so into these!! I can't wait!!

I am more surprised by their robust portrayal. Laman (or was it Lemuel?) said, after some humbling experience, "it is good" to Nephi. The grin that came on Nephi's face was awesome.

@@ResidentKlinton laman looks like thorin from the hobbit movies. complete with wooly mullet.

@@raysalmon6566 Porque no los dos? We love the New Testament. We just love the Book of Mormon, too. Scripture is awesome.

@@raysalmon6566 Depends on who you talk to. Also, we don't call ourselves "Mormons" anymore, since the name distracts from the fact that we, first and foremost, believe that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world.

@@raysalmon6566 well apparently you have never read them because they are.

I Love the way how obedient Nephi is Too keep the commandments of the Lord as of Lamen And Lemule they are not

It says in the Book that he was a great and powerful man, even from his youth both in his physical appearance and his spirituality and relationship to God, as was Moses.

Yup

How about 2 ½ hours in hair and makeup for that facial beard!

Hes another actor now, the nefi that lookes younger is currently serving his mission in brazil

I think you mean Lehi's family.

KevlarX2 Umm... NO. I mean ISHMAEL and his family. They made the journey too. Their faith in God allowed them to recognize Lehi as a prophet and were willing to follow him. I don’t know about you, but most of us are like Ishmael and his family. We are not related to the prophet but we follow him because we know he is the Lord’s prophet. Ishmael and his family are but a small part in this journey but their faith was HUGE.

Jacob Andersen 😂