Parables in the Book of Mormon
The question has been asked repeatedly: what are the battle scenes in the Book of Mormon for? I have heard a variety of answers, but somehow the one that most surfaces seems to be that one day, we, too, may engage in a battle and need to use some of these strategies. While I won’t totally dismiss that, I think so many people just plain look those scenes for what I really believe them to be: allegories and parables. I truly believe that most if not all of those scenes can be applied to our lives, if we would just … Continue reading