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The Book of Mormon gives a wonderful detailed example of Laman and Lemuel figuring out, “knowing,” that Nephi’s motives are evil and that the whole point of the game he is playing is to fool them so he can get power over them. This leads them from one bad decision to another until they literally lose contact with God or anything spiritual and become more and more angry, finally
becoming murderers. The problem was the first thing that they thought they had figured out, that they thought they knew. It seemed logical, and they were pretty sure of it, but they were wrong. Nephi’s motives weren’t evil, and he wasn’t in it just for the power. But look how sure they were: We know that he lies unto us; and he tells us these things, and he worketh many things by his cunning arts, that he may deceive our eyes, thinking, perhaps, that he may lead us away into some strange wilderness; and after he has led us away, he has thought to make himself a king and a ruler over us, that he may do with us according to his will and pleasure. [1 Nephi 16:38; emphasis added And later:We knew that ye could not construct a ship, for we knew that ye were lacking in judgment. . . . And we know that the people who were in the land of Jerusalem were a righteous
people. [1 Nephi 17:19, 22; emphasis added Look how many times they used the word know, how sure they were of what they had figured out. Are we ever as wrong about what we know and what we are sure we have figured out as Laman and Lemuel were?Share
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