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Old 01-10-2007, 03:32 PM
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I love your websites, Outshined! When do you have time to find this stuff? My favorite is the School of Abraham. I discovered it about 5 yrs ago. Its much more user friendly now than it used to be, but I can (and have) spent days wandering around in it.

About the BofM site, I don't know. I think it would be very good for kids. I think it lacks some important and insightful subtleties. For instance;

Plain study version:
My name is Nephi. I was born to good parents who saw that I was
educated as my father was educated. I've had many trials in my life, but I've always been highly favored by the Lord. I've received great knowledge of His goodness and mysteries. Because of these things, I now make this record of my life.

Original:
I, NEPHI, having been born of goodly parents, therefore I was taught
(“therefore” implies the reason for his education was goodly parents or goodly parents are parents that educate)

somewhat in all the learning of my father;
(“somewhat” isn’t “as”. It means a little in all things)

and having seen many afflictions in
(“having seen” may mean he was able to learn from the mistakes of others)

the course of my days, nevertheless, having been highly favored of the Lord in all my days; yea, having had a great knowledge of the goodness and the
(“yea” here implies a relationship between highly favored and a knowledge of the goodness and mysteries of God)

mysteries of God, therefore I make a record of my proceedings in my days.
(“therefore” means he has responsibilities because of his testimony. “Proceedings” are defined as - to go forward, progress after an interruption or carry on a series of actions specifically to establish.)
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