Tag: Alma

Alma 35 – 36When Alma was unconscious for three days he went from terror at the thought of standing before God to desiring to be with the angels singing praises to Him. I believe that the Savior was reaching out to Alma from the time he fell, and that is why Alma was so afraid,…

Alma 34“That same spirit which doth possess your body at the time you go out of this life, that same spirit shall have power to possess your body in that eternal world.” This does not mean that we must be perfect before we die. It means that we will not seek to repent, change, or…

Alma 33Have ye read the scriptures, if ye have and do not believe in Christ then you do not understand them. Alma assumes that faith must be generated by reading the scriptures. Anyone who has not read them cannot really have faith.

Alma 32There are three things about the seed analogy that struck me this time. First, you may know quickly that it was a god seed, but you cannot partake of the fruit until the tree has matured. Most trees do not mature in under 5 years. Some take as long as 50 years. The second…

Alma 31The “religion” of the Zoramites makes no sense to me. It is as if they invented a religion for some strange purpose without any regard for theology. This sounds like the result of someone (Zoram we assume) who wanted to build a society and brought people with him to settle a new land. There…

Alma 30The arguments of Korihor are like the arguments of all those who are led about by the devil – and who seek to lead others after them – their arguments need not have any connection to reality, they rely on an emotional reaction on the part of the listener. They talk about things like…

Alma 27 – 29It’s interesting to see the hatred of the Amalekites, always attacking someone. They went after the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi and decided that the target was too soft because they would not fight back (and because they were losing too many followers as a result) so they attacked the Nephites. They decided, after…

Alma 26This sounds like a mission conference between Ammon and his brethren laboring among the Lamanites.

Alma 25How is it that the Amulonites always manage to get into positions of power where they can abuse and manipulate the Lamanites? They were nearly all destroyed by the Nephites after the attack on Ammonihah and then the went to the East Wilderness where they usurped power over the Lamanites there and burned those…

Alma 24If more people joined the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi than were killed in the attack by the other Lamanites then we know that some who joined had not committed a murder first. Once we consider than none of the Amulonites or Amalakites joined, and that they did most of the killing, we can realize that…