Lamanites Not a Threat when Nephites Are Righteous

1 Ne. 2:23-24; 2 Ne. 5:25; refer in this text to handout Mosiah 21:7

“So it was a blessing to the Nephites after all to have the Lamanites on their doorstep to stir them up to remembrance… . No matter how wicked and ferocious and depraved the Lamanites might be (and they were that!), no matter by how much they outnumbered the Nephites, … they were not the Nephite problem. They were merely kept there to remind the Nephites of their real problem, which was to walk uprightly before the Lord.” (Hugh Nibley, Since Cumorah, p. 376)

Lamanites Not a Threat when Nephites Are Righteous

1 Ne. 2:23-24; 2 Ne. 5:25; refer in this text to handout Mosiah 21:7

“So it was a blessing to the Nephites after all to have the Lamanites on their doorstep to stir them up to remembrance… . No matter how wicked and ferocious and depraved the Lamanites might be (and they were that!), no matter by how much they outnumbered the Nephites, … they were not the Nephite problem. They were merely kept there to remind the Nephites of their real problem, which was to walk uprightly before the Lord.” (Hugh Nibley, Since Cumorah, p. 376)