Tag: Alma

Alma 7 It is instructive to recognize the things that Alma didn’t know although they were had in the records before his time. Nephi knew that Christy would come to Jerusalem during his mortal ministry and among the Nephites after his resurrection but Alma was not aware of that at this time (I don’t know…

Alma 4 – 6 I wonder if the experience of leading men in battle was among the reasons that Alma decided to give up the judgement seat. Perhaps he felt that being on the physical battlefield drew him away from the Spirit too much or it is even possible that Alma’s wounds are more significant…

Alma 2 – 3 Add I calculate the basis groups moving from the Nephites to the Lamanites and back to get a sense of the relative size of the two nations I think I generally forget that Amlici took a sizeable number of men with him from the Nephites. He had enough followers that he…

Alma 1 The phrase “they became more still” always seemed out of place to me. I’m not sure why that is but I understand now that it meant that because they exercised the law against those who transgressed it the society had more steadiness and less upheaval. That would seem to be a byproduct of…

Alma 63 The actual record of Shiblon may have looked much like one of the authors in Omni although perhaps with more history since these were the large plates. He did not have the plates for long and the record as Mormon wrote it indicates movement by or among the people but has nothing to…

Alma 62 I can imagine the joy of Moroni who must have been confused with the feeling that he would need to march agains Zerahemla which contrasted with what he had believed of Pahoran’s love of liberty. When he learned that Pahoran was still faithful but that Zerahemla was in the hands of rebels everything…

Alma 61 Will we ever face a situation as a nation where we must turn to military deployments within our borders to combat rampant lawlessness and rebellion against government—I mean more than a localized deployment of the national guard such as when the schools were desegregated in the South? I believe we probably will at…

Alma 60 I wonder how Moroni’s epistle got to Pahoran. Moroni sent it to Zerahemla so I could expect it to fall into the hands of the opposition. Was the messenger intercepted or did he simply learn on his way to Zerahemla that Pahoran was not there? Or did he get to Zerahemla and then…

Alma 59 Moroni was pleased to hear of the success of Helaman which came despite a lack of sufficient support from the government but he felt that he was not having much success at least partly because of a lack of sufficient support from the government. When it became apparent that even those parts of…

Alma 58 When they realized that they were not going to receive more strength Helaman and his men boldly moved forward in what they needed to do while trusting that the Lord would support them in their righteous efforts.