This ends the unit on instructions for baptism. Clearly there had been disagreements, but we have none of them recorded. What is added here is the information that “contention is not of me, but is of the devil.” The reason for this is that contentions have always been divisive in Nephite society. The problem exceeds differences of opinions, for these are opinions that are linked to definitions of reality, and therefore such contentions have (in the Book of Mormon) led to dangerous social and political schisms.