0 Ether : Cruelty & Violence

The Lord stretched forth his hand and touched the stones one by one with his finger. And ... the brother of Jared ... saw the finger of the Lord. Ether 3:6 9:35

Trivia: Who saw the Lord's finger?

Ether : Cruelty & Violence (10)

  1. "He that will contend against the word of the Lord, let him be accursed; and he that shall deny these things, let him be accursed."
    (Those who disbelieve in the Book of Mormon will go to hell.) 4:8
  2. "At my command the inhabitants thereof shall pass away, even so as by fire."
    (If he feels like it, God can burn people to death.) 4:9
  3. "He that believeth not shall be damned." 4:18
  4. Avoid all those secret, abominable, murderous, wicked oaths and combinations passed down since the time of Cain. If you don't, God will have to kill you. 8:15-24
  5. "Saith the Lord: I will pour out the fulness of my wrath." 9:20
  6. "There came forth poisonous serpents also upon the face of the land, and did poison many people." 9:31
  7. To punish the people for "their wicked combinations," God sent wars, famines, and pestilences. The resulting destruction was the greatest ever seen on the face of the earth -- greater than the flood of Noah, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, or World War II. Yet there is no evidence for any of this today. 11:7
  8. The prophets prophesied "that the Lord would utterly destroy them from off the face of the earth." 11:12
  9. "The Lord did visit them in the fulness of his wrath ... for their everlasting destruction." 14:25
  10. Millions of Jaredites kill each other in battle, leaving only their two leaders alive: Coriantumr and Shiz. Coriantur cuts of the head of Shiz (with his non-existent sword, of course) and then dies. Don't you just love a happy ending? 15:30-32

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