Tag: Alma
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13 November 2008
Alma 33I love how Alma incorporates the story of the serpent on the staff – if it were so easy as to look and be healed would you not look quickly? Then look to Christ and receive the healing of soul that you seek.
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12 November 2008
Alma 32When Alma talks about the fact that demanding a sign before granting belief is not faith he may well be thinking of the experience with Korihor that had so recently ended. “As faith is not to have a perfect knowledge, so it is with my words, ye cannot know of their surety at first.”…
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11 November 2008
Alma 31I really think that whoever first came up with the prayer of the Zoramites did so as a joke upon their believing brethren. It may well be that many of their leaders used religion to bind the people down and lift themselves up and when they gave their “prayers” they did so smugly because…
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10 November 2008
Alma 30I notice that the civil law had no hold upon Korihor because of his beliefs and that he received no punishment from the civil authorities.
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9 November 2008
Alma 28 – 29Alma reports that after a great war with the Lamanites in the 15th year the people had great reason for sorrow, but with the addition of the people of Ammon they had great reason to rejoice in so many people being brought to a knowledge of the Lord. It is in that…
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8 November 2008
Alma 27The people of Ammon suffered three years of increasing aggression from the Lamanites after the destruction of Ammonihah and before they began to live in Jershon among the Npehites.
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7 November 2008
Alma 26It surprised me that Aaron would accuse Ammon of boasting. What he had said up to that point was directed toward the goodness of the Savior, just as what he said afterwards. After 11 years (or more) of service they had seen whole cities converted to the Lord and had great reason to rejoice.
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6 November 2008
Alma 25I am starting to feel how burdensome the law of Moses would be to a people unless it was rooted in and pointing to a Savior. I see how easy it would be to want to rebel without looking to Christ.
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5 November 2008
Alma 24Anti-Nephi-Lehi evokes the spirit of true repentance when he says that it was all they could do to repent and perhaps it would be more than they could do to repent again. When we have the attitude that we can repent again it is a clear indication that our repentance was not complete.
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4 November 2008
Alma 23When the king of the Lamanites proclaimed that the people should not lay their hands on or detain the Nephite missionaries there was a precedent to that action as an earlier king had appointed the Nephite priests of Noah and appointed them as the teachers over his people. The kingdom had received great benefit…