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When Father Lehi went to bed the night of the Tree of Life Vision,

What might he have been worried about?

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1 Nephi 8:23

Important Points:They never did eat the fruit(In the church, but having no spiritual conviction)

Mists of darkness are those things that block out the clear view of the gospel.

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1 Nephi 8: 31,32Never eats the fruit

Focus is immediately on the Great and Spacious Building

Awed by the worldly

I Nephi 8: 24,25They Have eaten the

fruitAt one point they’ve

had a testimonySomething has caused

them to become ashamed of the church and themselves for “believing” it.

Then become filled with pride because they’re smarter than those who still believe.

Not only are there apostates within our midst, but there are also apostate doctrines that are sometimes taught in our classes and from our pulpits and that appear in our publications. And

these apostate precepts of men cause our people to stumble...

"Christ taught that we should be in the world but not of it. Yet there are some in our midst who are not so much concerned about taking the gospel into the world as they are about bringing worldliness into the gospel. 

They want us to be popular with the worldly even though a prophet has said that it is impossible, for all hell would then want to join us.

"Through their own reasoning and a few misapplied scriptures, they try to sell us the precepts and philosophies of men. They do not feel the Church is progressive enough." (CR, Apr 1969)

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Requirements:Must be in the Book of Mormon but not in the Bible

Their absence must be a ‘stumbling block’ for the gentiles.

Are there things within the Church that are a personal “stumbling block”?

What plain and precious truths might we blind to?

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Cultural Mormons?

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Church Mormons?

Gospel Mormons?

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1 Nephi 11:20-23Alma 32: 27, 28, 41