After teaching about the first principles and ordinances of the gospel—including faith in Christ, repentance, baptism, receiving the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end—Nephi laments the tendency in many to “look past” or ignore the greatest and most basic truths.
“…I am left to mourn because of the unbelief and the wickedness, and the ignorance, and stiffneckedness of men; for they will not search knowledge, nor understand great knowledge, when it is given unto them in plainness, even as plain as word can be.” (2 Nephi 32:7)
Questions:
-How many lack spiritual knowledge because of unbelief, wickedness, and prideful stubbornness?
-Why do we often make things more complicated than they need to be when it comes to our spiritual welfare?
Messages of the Book of Mormon 