Tom Matkin

House of Israel and Belief - Book of Mormon Study Notes Tom Matkin

Whenever I purchase a new copy of the Book of Mormon for my own use one of the first things I do is to divide the pages up into 30 blocks by marking the top corner of each page. The first eighteen pages get number 1 and the next get number 2 and so forth. The last few pages are 30. My practice then is to read and study a block every day of the month and this completes the book every month. And I never have to remember where I am, I just have to figure out what day of the month it is. Often I will select a gospel focus topic and make notes (usually in Microsoft One Note) of my impressions on that topic, sometimes putting the relevant text in my notes as well. This volume is made up of the notes from two such months of study. The first was a look at the use and meaning of the House of Israel and the second a focus on belief. These don?t have any special correlation with each other except that both were among my most favorite and enlightening studies. That is to say that the Book of Mormon has many amazing insights and teaching on those two topics. Insights that are largely missed unless you are specifically looking for them. Also, it may be a little more economical for me to put some of these shorter notes together into one volume. I don?t want the books to be so thick they are awkward to handle, but a couple hundred pages seems okay. So the House of Israel got piggybacked with belief. I?m nothing if not practical. As always, I hasten to add that this is not meant as a commentary on the Book of Mormon. At least not a commentary for you. It?s just my notes and I?m preserving them for me. If anything, I hope it serves as an example of a possibility for you. Read the book yourself and make your own notes. There are blessings to be had by flooding your life with the Book of Mormon that can?t be had any other way.