David Journal

Category: Scripture Notes

  • Things Alma knew

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    When Alma told the people that if they were guilty they would find that they would rather be buried under a mountain than stand before God he knew what he was talking about because he had felt that way during his days of unconsciousness when he began to accept his guilt.

  • Ammonihah

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    I wonder if Alma recognized the angel who had brought the first message of repentance to him when he again came to encourage and direct Alma. When Alma was told that the people of Ammonihah were studying to undermine the liberty of the Nephites I wonder if he had any more specific address if what…

  • Born of God

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    I get the feeling that after relating the story of their fathers, those who were converted by the preaching of Alma in the land of Mormon, Alma asked the people if they had been born of God because that was how their fathers had spoken about their conversation. That was perhaps a key phrase in…

  • Return to wickedness

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    How quickly did the neighbors turn from preserving their freedom—rejecting Amlici and then defeating his people and the Lamanites who were trying to subjugate then—to mourning their afflictions resulting from war, to being lifted up in pride?

  • Modern Amlici

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    I have often compared Donald Trump to Amalickiah in the Book of Mormon but it seems clear to me now that a better comparison is Amlici who sight to gain power according to the law and then sought to take power by force when he was rejected. The only thing we don’t know is how…

  • Suspect language

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    I see the doctrines of section 132 and I’m confident that I understand them but i also see that the way many of those principles are worded probably make more sense to the 19th century mind than to those of us in the 21st century. There are a number of things worded in such a…

  • What was Mosiah’s reasoning?

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    There are two things I wonder about the reasoning of Mosiah. The first is his reasoning behind granting Alma judgement over the people of the church. Modish clearly has justification over all his subjects so why did he determine that members of the church could be judged within the church parallel to the secular law?…

  • More clues

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    The fact that the people of Limhi could not find the land of Nephi and the armies of the Lamanites could not find the land of Nephi is consistent with the idea that they were likely in a densely forested land where trails would grow over. I also realized tonight for the first time that…

  • Passage of time

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    I have often wondered about the timeline of the Nephites in the land of Lehi-Nephi especially after the time of Zeniff. I realized tonight that the fact that Limhi and his people could mistake the search party from Zerahemla for the priests of Noah is evidence that they had been several years (I’d say at…

  • The forest of Mormon

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    I could just picture the first of Mormon in my mind as a thick jungle where Alma could escape detection when Noah sent his army to find Alma. Not only that but such a forested area would explain the various groups in that area who got lost over the years in their disparate journeys.