Comments on: Build a Boat? Gleaning from The Book of Mormon https://bookofmormononline.com/48/build-a-boat-gleaning-from-the-book-of-mormon Another Testament of Jesus Christ Thu, 23 Feb 2017 07:49:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: Emily https://bookofmormononline.com/48/build-a-boat-gleaning-from-the-book-of-mormon#comment-239 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:17:56 +0000 http://bookofmormononline-com.en.elds.org/?p=48#comment-239 Stacy,

I love this! I don’t know which I love more – that you saw a unique perspective or that you were pondering and ready to receive needed inspiration! I keep thinking of Nephi making repeated mistakes as the Lord taught him to make the tools he needed and sometimes even having to start all over!

]]> By: Barbara McNeil https://bookofmormononline.com/48/build-a-boat-gleaning-from-the-book-of-mormon#comment-9 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:33:59 +0000 http://bookofmormononline-com.en.elds.org/?p=48#comment-9 Stacy,
I love your analogy. I have come to realize as you have that when the Lord does bless us with personal revelation it does not come all at once. Just as you said, “step by step”. He does the same with us and blesses us with personal revelation incrementally. Line upon line. As we need it. Your point is so well taken, I don’t know how, but I will…….faith and obedience.

]]> By: Stacy https://bookofmormononline.com/48/build-a-boat-gleaning-from-the-book-of-mormon#comment-7 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:14:59 +0000 http://bookofmormononline-com.en.elds.org/?p=48#comment-7 Jeff, that’s interesting. I’ve never heard that theory. Personally, I think if Nephi knew how to build a ship, his brothers wouldn’t have thought he was a fool for thinking he could build a ship. But even if he did know how to build it in the manner of men, the Lord told him to do it differently. A way he did not know how.

]]> By: Jeff https://bookofmormononline.com/48/build-a-boat-gleaning-from-the-book-of-mormon#comment-4 Mon, 23 May 2011 17:46:40 +0000 http://bookofmormononline-com.en.elds.org/?p=48#comment-4 Great post, although I did want to point out something you may not have known: the area where Lehi’s party camped in the Old World—the original Bountiful—was quite near a known shipbuilding community. It has been theorized (and yes, I know it’s just a theory) that Nephi actually did have some experience in shipbuilding, gained during his years of apprenticeship while living in Bountiful.

After all, how could Nephi have known that “he did not ‘build the ship after the manner of men’,” unless he already knew by what manner men built ships?

]]> By: A Well-Behaved Mormon Woman https://bookofmormononline.com/48/build-a-boat-gleaning-from-the-book-of-mormon#comment-3 Mon, 23 May 2011 17:33:56 +0000 http://bookofmormononline-com.en.elds.org/?p=48#comment-3 Beautiful Stacy.

I’ve always loved that story in the Book of Mormon. I’ve consider too, that my own life is likened unto the building of that ship. If we will place our trust in the Lord and follow His Spirit, He will construct our lives according to His Plan and enable us to sail upon the challenges of life, to our own eventual Promise Land! It is a wonderful analogy for life.

tDMg

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