Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Moroni 5

(My highlights in orange, my thoughts in blue 12/2020 red type 11/20 orange 8/21 Brown 2022 -23)


The mode of administering the sacramental wine is set forth. About A.D. 401–21.

  1 The amanner of administering the wine—Behold, they took the cup, and said: Sounds like they passed around “one” cup. No fear of germs apparently! 
  2 O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee, in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this awine to the souls of all those who drink of it, that they may do it in bremembrance of the cblood of thy Son, which was shed for them; that they may witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that Here is where the two prayers differ:

they do always remember him, that they 

(bread) - "they are willing to take upon them the name of they Son, and always remember him, willing to remember Him vs. always do remember Him and keep his commandments which he hath given them,

may have his dSpirit to be with them. Amen.

(bread)that they may "always"

James Ferrell writes about this distinction in his book "Falling to Heaven". I'll have to review it and add it here. But I think it may show that the first covenant is about the promise. It lays out what our willingness and remembering Him looks like and will bring. The second prayer is about being firm in that covenant. We know the Spirit doesn't come and go, it is just with us, so we don't have to include the 'always'? The footnotes of 'Spirit' are more about being born again, and the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. Another thought I have had is that the second prayer, where we witness we do always remember Him, might refer to our coming to partake of the sacrament as a witness that we do always remember Him by doing that weekly. If that is correct, than by doing that, we may have His Spirit to be with us. The prayer on the bread is first and talks about our being willing to, at some future date, going to actually take His name upon us (Bednar suggests this might be in the temple) and willing to keep His commandments and that if we do, we'll be "born again" and then we'll "always" have His Spirit to be with us...


See Ensign April 1986: By John S. Tanner

Reflections on the Sacrament Prayers

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