Nephi's psalm - cougarguard.com — unofficial BYU Cougars / LDS sports, football, basketball forum and message board

jay santos · 02-25-2008, 01:46 AM

Why do we have to say Nephi's sin was "probably inconsequential"? That's how it was taught in our gospel doctrine today. That's how it's been handled by nearly everyone I've heard discuss it. Why? What if it was a serious sin?

I don't speculate on what the sin was, but I tend to think it was more than an inconsequential thing. Why else would he bring it up? If his audience is a group of people generally with serious sin under their belts at some time in their life, wouldn't it be a little pretentious to be dramatic about the effect of "minor" sin? That's fake humility to me.

02-25-2008, 01:46 AM	#1
jay santos Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,177	Nephi's psalm Why do we have to say Nephi's sin was "probably inconsequential"? That's how it was taught in our gospel doctrine today. That's how it's been handled by nearly everyone I've heard discuss it. Why? What if it was a serious sin? I don't speculate on what the sin was, but I tend to think it was more than an inconsequential thing. Why else would he bring it up? If his audience is a group of people generally with serious sin under their belts at some time in their life, wouldn't it be a little pretentious to be dramatic about the effect of "minor" sin? That's fake humility to me. Last edited by jay santos; 02-25-2008 at 01:52 AM.