Tag: Alma

Alma 22 – 23 We learn from a young age in the LDS church that the Lamanites are bad and the Nephites are good. The truth is significantly more complex and if we stick to that caricature we will misunderstand many of the people in the scripture stories. For example Lamoni’s father, the king of…

Alma 21 The Amulonites were naturally drawn to the teachings of Nehor even though they had separated from the Nephites generations before Nehor came among the Nephites.

Alma 20 Lamoni’s first desire after having established the church among his people was to share the gospel with his father. I like to imagine that the reason for that was that he knew his father to be a good man. Of course we see that the timing wasn’t right for his father right now.…

Alma 18 – 19 If Ammon had started his teaching at the sorry of Lehi and his children then Lamoni might have felt that this was just the Nephite tradition but by going back to Adam and providing context it would have been more apparent to Lamoni that the Nephite version of events was more…

Alma 17 The fact that the sons of Mosiah were teaching the truth to the Lamanites about the traditions of their father’s that were incorrect shouldn’t be interpreted as an indication that they had no correct traditions.

Alma 15 – 16 Last week I thought that Merkel was the land where the believers from Ammonihah gathered. It was Sidon. Was Alma at all surprised with the vigor that Zeezrom displayed when he was healed “according to his faith which is in Christ”? Even in the early years of the reign of the…

Alma 14 Zeezrom must have felt even more guilty when he realized how willing the people of Ammonihah were to be led into wickedness and that he had been very active in leading them in that direction. He soon learned that they were less willing to be led into righteousness.

Alma 13 The information here is useful and accurate but has no particular power unless it is conveyed to the heart by the power of the Holy Ghost.

Alma 12 As Alma explains that the approach of Zeezrom was one advanced by a being that was an adversary to Zeezrom as much as to Alma or Amulek there are some people, like Zeezrom who finally recognize the trap while many other people still refuse to see the trap and still end up being…

Alma 11 How many of the people believed Amulek in the two statements where he called it the lies that Zeezrom was speaking? The first one could be passed off as an unprovable accusation since it was a matter of intent. The second one was a clearly a lie but anyone who was more interested…