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1 Nephi 6

Summary: Nephi explains his purpose in writing on the plates. He desires to write of the things of God, so he won't talk about his family genealogy or every single thing that happens with Lehi. He commands his posterity to avoid writing things on the plates that have no worth. 

 V. 4- "For the fulness of mine intent is that I may persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and be saved."

Whole purpose of the Book of Mormon. Consider also 1 Nephi 19:18 - "And I, Nephi, have written these things unto my people, that perhaps I might persuade them that they would remember the Lord their Redeemer." And verse 23 in the same chapter, Nephi states that he writes the words of Isaiah to "more fully persuade them to believe in the Lord their Redeemer." Finally, the words of the Book of Mormon's title page, written by... Mormon, I think? He states that the ultimate purpose of the book is to the "convincing of the Jew and Gentle that Jesus is the Christ, the eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations." So if it's not about Christ, which many Protestants seem to believe, then I don't know what is.

V. 5- "The things which are pleasing unto the world, I do not write."

What would you write that would be considered "pleasing to the world?"

Probably something that would come straight out of the magazine Cosmopolitan. 

V. 6- "... things which are not of worth unto the children of men."

What kinds of things would be considered "worthless" unto the children of men?

Probably something that would come straight out of the magazine Cosmopolitan. Or even US Weekly.

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