Precisely at the three hundred year marker Mormon makes his concluding point for that quarter of the whole time-block. At this time Nephites and Lamanites are “exceedingly wicked.” They have become “one like unto another.” Given the way Lamanite has been used as a designation, there is no reason to suppose that the Lamanites have changed. What has happened is that the Nephites have adopted the intrusive Lamanite culture with its economic and social trappings. There are still remnants of true believers in the Nephite lands, but even those believers are a minority in a larger community of those who are have either adopted pagan ways, or somehow managed to syncretize their Christianity with the “world’s” pagan religions. At this point Nephite and Lamanite become even more difficult terms to understand. Nephite continues to describe the history of the people who should have been Christian. It is becoming more a political term than a religious definition because the Nephites have apostatized from their true religion and adopted the ways of the world.
Chronological: Three hundred years in the Nephite count is 293 A.D.