Welcome back to Scripture Central. I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson and this is John W. Welch, who I will refer to as Jack.

We feel so honored to be able to talk about this sacred text. And as we begin each week for Come Follow Me with Scripture Central, you can find all of the notes.

You just go to Book of Mormon Central,

and you'll be able to find the John W. Welch notes for this.

In addition to it, the notes,

Jack has prepared a fabulous book for us that's much shorter,

shorter, it's like a cliff note version of our lessons

that we're going to be talking about.

So if you want to follow along, you can either

check the long version for those of you who really want to get all of the details or a Cliff

Notes version right here that's available either online or at the bookstore. But we're thrilled

to be able to be here today. Yes, and Lynn, the entire archive is a wonderful resource.

I hope people will go there and find lots of things, all the books and articles, so much

has been written on the Book of Mormon, about the background of this story.

We're beginning, and last time we talked about the title page.

And I think it's interesting that Maroni, of course, writes the title page knowing how the story is ending.

Yeah, he's very familiar with all the details of Nephi all the way down.

He knows how it's all going to turn out. But what do you make of the fact that Nephi and Lehi, they didn't know that at the beginning?

In fact, even in the text it says not knowing beforehand, you know, they're completely walking by faith.

It's a very different story.

And it's not a journal.

Nephi's writing his text that we have, anyway, of First Nephi.

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