I have a question wrote:Moroni lost.
Not so. There were two different men by the name Moroni. It would appear you're confusing the Moroni in the book of Alma (who died decades before Christ), with the Moroni found elsewhere in the Book of Mormon (who died centuries after Christ).
In this thread, we've been talking about the first Moroni, otherwise known as captain Moroni. When he died, his country was still free, intact, and strongly fortified for defense. So he didn't lose.
I have a question wrote:Despite having God on his side.
Here, you must be thinking of the other Moroni. Even then, you are forgetting (or are perhaps not aware of) the covenant attached to the land of promise. The people of the later Moroni's time became sufficiently rebellious that they were swept off the land, as promised in the covenant. Moroni knew it was coming, and he knew God was no longer on the Nephites' side (at least not those in the Americas). The outcome had been foretold by many over the centuries, even as far back as Nephi (almost 1,000 years earlier).


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