Tag: Alma

Alma 25I’m not sure I will ever understand how the Amulonites and Amalakites managed togain postions of leadership among the Lamanites to stir them up against the Nephites and to kill Lamanites who were converted to the truth. It makes sense in the days of Ammoron and Amalakiah, who were Nephite dissenters who had usurped…

Alma 24When the king says “for perhaps, if we should stain our swords again they can no more be washed bright through the blood of the Son of our great God” my reaction is, that’s not how the Atonement works. Repentance is always available. Of course committing murder after what the Anti-Nephi-Lehies had come to…

Alma 23I just realized why they chose the name Anti-Nephi-Lehies – they wanted to be distinguished from the Lamanites and they did not want to be remembered by the name of their ancestor who first rebelled against God, but they did not want to pretend to be of the lineage of Nephi because that would…

Alma 22“I will insist that ye shall administer unto me.” That’s what we call a golden contact. Lamoni’s father had been prepared to listen with his heart to the words of these servants of the Lord. It is interesting that the king would allows the Amalekits to build synagogues, but their claim of the existence…

Alma 21I wonder if Aaron and his brethren expected that their work would be easier among former Nephites (The Amalekites and Amulonites)? If so they may have imagined terrible things happening to Ammon, worse than what they were bearing. They would have been very surprised to see Ammon coming to their rescue if that was…

Alma 20If Lamoni’s father had seen Ammon in his court he would have felt compelled to kill the Nephite who was influencing his son. He also would have had more men at his disposal to bring it about. Had the Lord allowed Ammon to go there he would still have saved Ammon, but he would…

Alma 19I notice that the queen did not ask Ammon to heal Lamoni, only to tell her if he was dead or not. Is that because she had some faith in God, or because she did not have faith that Ammon could heal Lamoni? (I’m guessing the former.) We later learn that she is willing…

Alma 17I wonder how the brethren of Ammon fared when they were captured as they went to different lands of the Lamanites. We know that Aaron fell in among a harder group of Lamanites, but did they give him the chance to say what he wanted? Did they not like his answer, or did they…

Alma 15 – 16I often thing that there were many women and children who were burned in Ammonihah but I realize that there were probably not very many compared to the population of the city. Even after the righteous were destroyed/cast out and the leaders of the city killed as the prison fell, the vast…