-God seems to be very committed to the principle of not doing for man what he can do for himself. I don’t suppose the Lord needed Nephi to get the servant, to use the keys, even to kill Laban in order to get the brass plates. By some supernatural (or very “natural”) power God could have unlocked the treasury, distracted the servants and led Nephi directly to the plates. But he did not! All events transpired with the least amount of direct heavenly intervention as possible (and with no heavenly usurpation of agency). The Spirit led but Nephi did the physical work (slaying, dressing like Laban, imitating Laban’s voice, etc.). When we are empowered and have been given abilities we should not expect “miraculous” interventions.
Sunday, August 30, 2015
1 Nephi 4:21
21
And he supposed me to be his master, Laban, for he beheld the garments
and also the sword girded about my loins.
-God seems to be very committed to the principle of not doing for man what he can do for himself. I don’t suppose the Lord needed Nephi to get the servant, to use the keys, even to kill Laban in order to get the brass plates. By some supernatural (or very “natural”) power God could have unlocked the treasury, distracted the servants and led Nephi directly to the plates. But he did not! All events transpired with the least amount of direct heavenly intervention as possible (and with no heavenly usurpation of agency). The Spirit led but Nephi did the physical work (slaying, dressing like Laban, imitating Laban’s voice, etc.). When we are empowered and have been given abilities we should not expect “miraculous” interventions.
-God seems to be very committed to the principle of not doing for man what he can do for himself. I don’t suppose the Lord needed Nephi to get the servant, to use the keys, even to kill Laban in order to get the brass plates. By some supernatural (or very “natural”) power God could have unlocked the treasury, distracted the servants and led Nephi directly to the plates. But he did not! All events transpired with the least amount of direct heavenly intervention as possible (and with no heavenly usurpation of agency). The Spirit led but Nephi did the physical work (slaying, dressing like Laban, imitating Laban’s voice, etc.). When we are empowered and have been given abilities we should not expect “miraculous” interventions.
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