Talk:Three Nephites
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[edit] Too many scriptural references?
I thought that this article was too small. I rewrote it, including the previous information. The account in 3 Nephi 28 was in historical order, so was not presented in a way to understand this topic. (There were other purposes for the way that it was written.) The information that I wrote lays it out for someone who is interested in this topic. I liberally referenced the passages from which I drew the information. I think that there are too many scriptural links for a Wikipedia article. But considering that the source material is arranged differently, it seemed logical to reference the scattered verses. Feel free to rearrange and remove these references if you think that it will help the article. Val42 17:02, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
- I like your additions, but I think you're right about too many unnecessary references. They're all from the same chapter, 3 Nephi 28, which is included as an external link; is it really necessary to link to each verse individually? I think there are a few mentions of the Three outside of that chapter, too, come to think of it. Somewhere round about 3 Nephi or Mormon, doesn't it say the people got so wicked that the Three Nephites were taken away from them? Pterodactyler 17:34, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Authorship of verses
It is clear that Mormon contemplates whether the Three Nephites are already immortal.(v36) But because Mormon inserts his own comments sometimes during his edits, I don't know if verse 17 is Nephi or Mormon. This is why I put "possibly Nephi" in the article. But this is terribly ambiguous as to what is meant by the words. The two possibilities are that "Nephi is the possible author of this verse" (what I meant) or "Nephi possibly meant to contemplate the immortality of the Three Nephites." Someone please rewrite this sentence so that it means what I want it to mean. Val42 17:02, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
