Tag: Alma

Alma 4 Having 3000 people join the church in one year would be equivalent to our modern number of baptisms in a population of 70 million people or a church of 140,000. I would guess that their church was less than 140,000 and their total population much less than 70 million so this was much…

Alma 3 Lamanite history and tradition was mostly passed orally and without being grounded in the records that were brought from Jerusalem their traditions included supposition and superstition. The result was that whatever record they kept was flawed. In our day there is not a mark separating the righteous from the unrighteous but with the…

Alma 2 It’s incredible to me that within 5 years of setting up a free government a man could convince nearly half the people to give up their liberty and make him king.

Alma 1 I’m sure that Nehor did not preach, like Sharem had, that whatever a man did was no crime. His doctrine was that whatever crime a man committed was redeemed of the Lord in the end. It is a subtle difference and leads finally to the same philosophical conclusions but some might have been…

Alma 62 – 63It is interesting to realize that although they fought the fleeing Lamanites from the city of Nephihah the armies of Moroni did not lose a single soul. I imagine that the prospect of abandoning war was very attractive for those Lamanites who had been captured. By joining the people of Ammon they…

Alma 59 – 61What a boost to Moroni’s spirit to learn how successful Helaman had been and to see some assurance that victory against the Lamanites was possible. When Nephihah fell he began again to wonder what was going so wrong among his people. As Pauoean read the words of Moroni his first thought must…

Alma 57 – 58I want the Lord to ba able to say of me that I “did obey and observe to perform every word of command with exactness.” The Lamanites supposed that Helaman’s army was weary from their march. Chances are that they were but they pushed through the night to be able to obtain…

Alma 56I never realized before that Helaman and his 2000 joined the army almost as soon as Moroni reunited his main army with the men under Teamcum. He must have felt very overwhelmed to be stretched so thin against two Lamanite forces at that time.

Alma 54 – 55I believe that we are catching a glimpse of a very human Moroni here. He is angry and he changes his mind about exchanging prisoners when Ammoron’s response angers him further. The Lord works with men even when they are imperfect and he aided Moroni here even if his actions were driven…

Alma 52 – 53It sounds like the largest part of the Lamanite army was in the East where Amalickiah had led them and that the army in the West was a secondary force%u2014large enough to harass and demand attention but it would not have been a serious threat if it had been the only Lama…