Category: Scripture Notes

I had always believed that all truth would be made known to the world eventually (“shouted from the rooftops” was the phrase) but my reading tonight suggests something more targeted. The Lord intend to make all things known to those who serve Him but not necessarily everyone else. Others are only guaranteed to receive those…

The promise from Alma to Helaman about the plates being preserved if he would exert all his effort and counsel with God in prayer was surely repeated from Moroni to Joseph Smith centuries later. God will make all things work out to fulfill his purposes for those who earnestly seek to do His will.

Alma talks about the Lord using small means to bring about great ends so that Helaman can understand the importance of keeping the plates even if that seems like a mundane task.

When Alma felt joy at the prospect of seeing God again he then began to spend the remainder of his life sharing what he had learned and inviting others to discover Christ as the cornerstone of their faith.

Imagine the pressure of accepting the justice of God (ie. that justice is an unalterable trait of God) and at the same time being afraid to face that justice because of your earned guilt. That is what Alma felt before he grasped on to Christ for mercy.

Adina often talks of remembering the captivity of his fathers and certainly be did remember that captivity but I realize here that he was also consistent in remembering his spiritual captivity prior to his deliverance and conversion. He spent more time talking about remembering the captivity of his fathers possibly because that would be easier…

It is clear that the leaders of the Zoramites governed based on popular opinion. That doesn’t mean they always did what was most popular, it means that they don’t act without knowing what the popular opinion is so that they can choose the course most likely to be successful. In this case, many people believed…

Amulek makes it clear that exercising faith in Christ to try the seed means praying and also showing charity consistent with your faith.

How do we use the principle of supporting witnesses? Alma testified using the scriptures while Amulek testified for himself. Two teachers and two different kinds of witnesses all witnessing the same truth.

The first part of Alma’s answer was that prayer could be done anywhere. The second part of his answer was that exercising faith must include having faith centered in the Son of God.