ERayR Posted February 18, 2011 Posted February 18, 2011 I disagree."[T]he inhabitants thereof began to hide up their treasures in the earth; and they became slippery, because the Lord had cursed the land, that they could not hold them, nor retain them again" (Mormon 1:18).Would you not think your treasure was slippery if you had it all invested in the stock market the last couple of years?
zerinus Posted February 18, 2011 Posted February 18, 2011 Would you not think your treasure was slippery if you had it all invested in the stock market the last couple of years?Especially if he had invested it in the Madoff scam!
Mike Reed Posted February 19, 2011 Posted February 19, 2011 That was part of the "slipperiness". The "slipperiness" itself simply meant that they began to lose their wealth in various ways, and could no longer retain them.If you agree that it was at least part, then I am not exactly why you objected to my initial claim.Would you not think your treasure was slippery if you had it all invested in the stock market the last couple of years?In consequence to a spell/curse? No.
zerinus Posted February 19, 2011 Posted February 19, 2011 If you agree that it was at least part, then I am not exactly why you objected to my initial claim.Because your original claim was based on an obvious misunderstanding of the word "slippery" as used in those contexts, with obvious allusions to the alleged "treasure seeking" practices of Joseph Smith. You failed to realize that the Book of Mormon is a much more sophisticated piece than that.
zerinus Posted February 19, 2011 Posted February 19, 2011 In consequence to a spell/curse? No.It may very well be, unless you have no belief in the supernatural at all, or in divine intervention in human affairs. In the sacred writ it is a recurring pattern that when people become rich, they become complacent and forget God, until God chastens them so that they become poor again, or suffer in other ways, and then they repent and remember Him. That is how it was in the Bible and in the Book of Mormon. Who is to say that the last economic downturn, which brought hardship to a lot of people, was not part of that divine act of retribution to stir them up to remember the Lord their God.
Mike Reed Posted February 19, 2011 Posted February 19, 2011 Because your original claim was based on an obvious misunderstanding of the word "slippery" as used in those contexts, with obvious allusions to the alleged "treasure seeking" practices of Joseph Smith. You failed to realize that the Book of Mormon is a much more sophisticated piece than that.Still not following you.
zerinus Posted February 19, 2011 Posted February 19, 2011 Still not following you.I think that other people are. That is what matters as far as I am concerned.
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