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    Home»Articles»Offense of the Hard-hearted
    Articles May 13, 20161 Min Read

    Offense of the Hard-hearted

    “…the hearts of the people began to wax hard, and that they began to be offended because of the strictness of the word…”

    Alma 35:15

    I was listening to Alma 35 this morning on my way to work and this line stuck out to me. In today’s understanding the heart is more of a feeling thing, we distinguish it from the thinking done by the brain. We find the word leb translated as heart often in the Bible, it’s from lebab which is the organ in the middle of your chest.

    Anciently the heart wasn’t just for feeling, leb means, “very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything.” So with the Nephites, their feelings, wills, and intellects were waxing (growing or passing from one state to another) hard, and they were beginning to be offended because the word was strict (or accurate; exact).

    Twice we get the sense that this was gradual, it happened over time. The strictness, exactness, accurateness of the word did not offend them at one point, it didn’t until their feelings, wills, and intellects became hard and unbending.

    I think this rings very familiar to the present day.

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      1. Brian on May 17, 2016 5:07 pm

        Read about a year or so ago about some bioscientists discovered the human heart has 50,000+ neurons which are identical to those in the brain. Seems to be supportive of scripture where the Lord tells us He will put words into our Hearts

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