Alma 12
Alma knew, after the angel commanded him to stop persecuting the church even if he chose to be cut of himself from God, what it felt like to have a knowledge of the condemnation he faced because of his works, his words, and his thoughts. He knew the feeling of wishing for the power to command the mountains to fall upon him so that he would never have to meet his Lord. his first instinct was not to be saved, but to be destroyed so that he would never have to face judgment. He knew that was not possible which is what finally caused him to reach out to the very Savior he had been fighting for so long and he then learned that redemption was always possible. That is why he is able to say with perfect understanding, “seeing that we know these things, and they are true, let us repent and harden not our hearts.”