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As Ray pointed out, the Gospel is intended to heal the wounds in our souls. The whole need no physician, indeed. I think it should be obvious, too, that we do not all suffer from the same maladies of spirit, and therefore we do not all need the same type of therapy. The Book of Mormon may be the perfect medicine for you at a given time in your life, but it may not be as useful in another time in your life. It may be of great benefit to my soul, but you might find more solace in the NT, or Abraham, or from the stories of Buddha’s life. In that way, I think what several folks here have expressed – that at one time the BoM was very meaningful but it’s less so now – is perfectly understandable. To carry out the therapy analogy, aspirin is great for headaches, but won’t do anything for nausea. Tragedian Actor: Quote:weren’t they always headed to the promised land?
As he points out in the book, they have fled into the wilderness until the people seeking to kill Lehi quit trying to kill him and all that Jazz blows over. He says it is definitely not clear until they go back to Jerusalem that they never intended to return. Read it again with that in mind and see if you find evidence to the contrary. His case for the unreliable narrator is the best reason to like the BOM as far as I’m concerned.
The other thing I’ll mention about the BOM is that it’s just another Testament. Essentially, the NT is a set of “testaments,” written by several authors. People try to “harmonize” the gospels, and yet they are different in some key details that can’t really be synchronized like that. The benefit of multiple authored scriptures is that like the 5 men and the elephant, each one provides an incomplete and biased view of the gospel. But the more of them we read, the more complete our picture.
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