All I recall was that he was one of Lehi's sons.

The first born sons of Lehi and the bad ones.

The good ones were the next two, Sam & Nephi.

Hmm, I wonder, was Joseph Smith the fourth son or anything?



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He was the 5th child.

Lemuel was a fictional idiot who, despite receiving multiple manifestations of divine power, continued to be a non-believer.

Even Bill Mahar (hardcore atheist) has admitted that if Jesus came down and showed himself, he'd admit, "Well, look at that. I was wrong."

Lemuel apparently couldn't figure out cause and effect.

Lemuel Durfee was the Smith's landlord before the Book of Mormon was written. Owed money was often a point of contention in their relationship.

This actually sounds plausible. Got a link.

He was the bother of Lime-uel, who was the homosexual chef that invented Key Lime Pie for Earnest Hemmingway.

Lemuel. He' the fictional guy that didn't believe his own eyes. He went about life like he was Stans best friend. This caused him a lot of trouble. His brother Laman was like unto him.

They were not their parents favorites.

He's the guy who snuck a bggie of weed and some Boone's Farm onto the boat.

Say, why didn't God have the foresite to leave Laman and Lemual behind in Arabia--he knew they were a-holes. I mean, did he really want all that later bloodshed and the death of millions in the New World as part of his "plan"?

Jesus wept.

I was an extremely devout mormon, but I didn't appear that way coming from a semi-active family.

In seminary in my junior year of high school, I was reading a historical novel that was paperback. The cover had a woman who looked like a prostitute on it and my seminary teacher started calling me Lemuel. It stuck through the rest of my seminary years. The seminary teachers even signed my yearbook that way.

That is the only time I think of "Lemuel."

I thought "Lemuel" was French for "the mule". Those Nephites did speak French you know, even if they wrote it in reformed egyptian.

Basically - Laman and Lemuel = objectively evil. Nephi and Sam = objectively righteous.

Its French.

Adieu

Lemuel (Lemmy, for short) wasn't that bad. Laman was the really wicked one and Lemmy was just along for the ride. That's why his descendants are called Lamanites rather than Lemuelites.

http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,610984,610984#msg-610984



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A bit part one dimensional character in the Mormon novel who appears to only do exactly what Laman does and has a non speaking part.

Nephi is the protagonist, Lehi the deutaroganist, 'God' the tritagonist, Laman the atagonist, 'Satan' the protagonist. Women, and also Sam and Lemuel in this first part, were just supporters throughout the book. Narrators: Mormon, Moroni. Authors: Joseph Smith et al

yours_truly Wrote:
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> Nephi is the protagonist, Lehi the deutaroganist,
> 'God' the tritagonist,
> 'Satan' the antagonist through Laman. Women, and also Sam and
> Lemuel in this first part, were just supporters
> throughout the book. Narrators: Mormon, Moroni.
> Authors: Joseph Smith et al


corrected a little bit