Tag: Alma

Alma 22 – 23 If Aaron read the scriptures to the king it means that either he had scriptures that he carried with him or else that the king had scriptures. I would expect Aaron to have the scriptures because even if the king had a scriptural record it might have been altered from the…

Alma 21 It is perfectly natural that the Amalekites and the Amulonites would be attached to the ideas of Nehor because vain and easy doctrines were always their pursuit. The fact that they explicitly allowed anyone the chance to preach in case they found a doctrine more to their liking would make their synagogues a…

Alma 17 – 20 It amazes me that none of the sons of Mosiah had the feeling that they could do as much good (or more) by being a king over their people than they could do preaching among the wicked and likely unreceptive Lamanites. I wonder if this choice to accept a foreigner who…

Alma 15 – 16 Alma understood that anyone can say they believe in Christ that is why he clearly asked that Zeezrom be healed according to his faith. I would say that the abruptness of the healing says much about the power of God and about the strength of the faith of Zeezrom. We are…

Alma 14 The fact that Alma and Amulek could break the routes they were bound with after many days without food or water should have scared any wicked man (no righteous man would see someone treated like that unless he to was captive with them).

Alma 12 – 13 Alma knew what he was speaking about when he said that in a sinful state before God “we would fain be glad if we could command the rocks and the mountains to fall upon us.” He had felt that during his first conversion experience. I am going through the experiences that…

Alma 11 I suspect I have calculated this before but assuming that an onti is worth two senums (we are told that an onti was “as great as them all” but each lower level was specified as double the value of the level below it) that would make an onti worth eight days pay for…

Alma 10 It’s interesting to see which parts of Amulek’s ancestry was included in hid introduction when he skipped so many generations. By deduction we know about when each of those ancestors lived except Aminadi. I would guess that he loved sometime during the writing of the books Jarom or Omni.

Alma 9 As I read these words of the people of Ammonihah I think that anyone today should be able to recognize that any city in the world could be completely destroyed within a day and left completely uninhabitable thanks to nuclear weaponry. That left me wondering if there was any prophetic warning to the…

Alma 8 I am reminded of a city in Illinois that we drove through while I was assigned to the Greenville branch. Elder Thompson and I are trying to visit referrals in the further reaches of our area and we came to one town where there was a referral and as we drove around the…