Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. Nate Williams,

Mosiah chapter 29 through Alma 4.

The next question I have, how is the Order of Nihor different from the Holy Order of God. It really looks like in Chapter 1, Mormon wants to make sure

you parallel or juxtapose the profession of Nihor as opposed to what's going on in the church

or the Holy Order of God. One of the first things I observe is that the profession of Nihor is

prideful.

It's motivated by riches.

Mormon wants the reader to understand that those in the Holy Order of God are humble,

and they impart the word of God one with another, and he even says it without money and without price.

A second comparison, maybe to see between those two, a stark difference. Those following Nihor's plan those that those in the order of God have a very strict law in the church

forbidding that anyone should arise and persecute those that do not belong to the church.

Or even among themselves.

Sadly though, the ideal doesn't always hold up in the church.

We see in those chapters, there is still sometimes some

contentions and persecutions even among the people of God's church, which is a reality

we all deal with where there are firm clear laws, but the challenge to do the people of God

always measure up to the ideal?

A third parallel I saw is that the people of Nihor are committed to satisfying the desires

of the natural man, or in the words of Mormon indulging themselves in all manner of wickedness.

While those who stand fast in the faith of God, we're told in verse 25,

are immovable in keeping the commandments of God and bear with patience the

persecutions heaped upon them. A couple more parallels, the Order of

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