5 Myths Debunked

I felt inspired to read 1 Nephi chapter 1, so I did. It was amazing to me the things that stood out and contradict foolishness. All in the very first chapter of the beautiful, Book of Mormon.

Myth #1. Don't seek the mysteries.

"yea, having had a great knowledge of the goodness and the mysteries of God,"
(1 Nephi 1:1)

Myth #2. There's only one prophet on the earth at a time.

"and in that same year there came many prophets, prophesying unto the people that they must repent,"
(1 Nephi 1:4)

Myth #3. God doesn't use dreams to tell us things that are important.

"And now I, Nephi, do not make a full account of the things which my father hath written, for he hath written many things which he saw in visions and in dreams;"
(1 Nephi 1:16)

"For behold, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto my father, yea, even in a dream," (1 Nephi 2:1)

"2 And it came to pass that the Lord commanded my father, even in a dream, that he should take his family and depart into the wilderness."
(1 Nephi 2:2)

[Wow. He considered it the "word of The Lord" even though it came to him in a DREAM.... And he was even obedient to it!  Probably the hardest and most important thing that's ever been asked of him by The Lord, was asked in a dream. ]

Myth #4. Only the leaders of the church can prophesy. 

"and he also hath written many things which he prophesied and spake unto his children" (1 Nephi 1:16)

"behold he went forth among the people, and began to prophesy and to declare unto them concerning the things which he had both seen and heard. (1 Nephi 1:18)

Myth #5. The true church would not cast out and reject a messenger from The Lord.

"And it came to pass that the Jews did mock him because of the things which he testified of them; for he truly testified of their wickedness and their abominations"
(1 Nephi 1:19)

"And when the Jews heard these things they were angry with him; yea, even as with the prophets of old, whom they had cast out, and stoned, and slain; and they also sought his life, that they might take it away. (1 Nephi 1:20)

And a little bit of Matthew, for good measure:
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!...

30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Matthew 23:30-31