“It is Wisdom in God That We Should Obtain These Records”
The Book of Mormon contains a powerful testimony of the importance of scriptural records for the spiritual and intellectual preservation of a nation. The brass plates enabled the Nephites not only to know of and remember the spiritual legacy of ancient Israel but also to have and perpetuate the “language of [their] fathers.” Later in the Nephite record we learn of the sad tale of the Mulekites, who squandered their possibilities for a time because of their spiritual and intellectual illiteracy, a condition due largely to the lack of a written record. (See Omni 1:17; Mosiah 1:3.)
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