August 3 – John 11:50 “Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.”
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Today you’ll want to ask the Mormon if they’re okay with Smith plagiarizing what Caiaphas said to Jesus while sentencing our Lord to death. The narrative in today’s Mormon reference comes from Nephi justifying the murder of Laban, the overseer of the treasury. They claim God told them in to murder him so they’d have a copy of the scriptures when they left Jerusalem. Note: in Jeremiah, God told the Israelites not to leave Jerusalem during the Babylonian takeover.
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1 Nephi 4:13 “Behold the Lord slayeth the wicked to bring forth his righteous purposes. It is better that one man should perish than that a nation should dwindle and perish in unbelief.”
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