Post by Noah – King of the Nephites
Sack cloth and ashes? Is he mad? My fifty can slay thousands and we have proven it!
Our tranquility has been interrupted by a mad man. I have commanded my men to bring him to me so I may execute him for his crimes. He claims he speaks for God but he offends me and my people.
How can he claim to speak for God when we have just proven our might and superiority. This man claims our people will be delivered to the hands of our enemies if we do not repent of alleged sins and return to God. He says we will be brought into bondage and be afflicted by the hands of our enemies. Nonsense.
Despite our treaty with the Lamanites, they began to come in upon my people in small numbers and attack while they were in the fields tending my sheep. When the Lamanites defied my guards and killed them and drove many of my flocks out of my land, I engaged my armies. My armies were more than enough to re-establish safety among my people.
We drove the Lamanites back with a decisive victory. No mercy is our tactic. When we spill our enemy’s blood with such proficiency, they fear us and thus they dare not return without considering their blood that we will certainly shed. My fifty can slay their thousands and the spoil is ours.
If there were a God and He were watching, didn’t he notice our superiority over our enemies? There is no wickedness, there are no abominations nor whoredoms in our kingdom. I say wo be unto this mad man and his jealous God who he says will visit us in his anger.
We will never need deliverance, we have proven we can take care of ourselves and thus bondage is not a concern, even if we were wicked.
As this man is the one responsible for stirring up my people to anger one with another and is raising contentions among my people, I will slay him. As soon as my guards can apprehend him they will bring him to me. But until now, he has proven somewhat elusive none of my people have been able take him.
Book of Mormon | Mosiah 11:16-29
