Tag: Alma

The retaking of Antiparah should remind us to think carefully about our options. When Ammoron offered the city in exchange for prisoners we have reason to believe the offer was made because he knew that they were not strong enough to maintain the city anyway and figured he would try to get something in return…

I’ve never before considered how Moroni cleared the Lamanites out of the east and west wilderness areas. I’ll bet that while he was forceful he was not cruel. I expect that they relocated the people and did not allow them the option to remain but that he did not kill any in the process.

We need (and have needed for a few years) a modern Moroni—someone who can and will rally people to defend their liberty in the face of the threats against it that are becoming every more obvious. When confronted with direct opposition those who followed Amalickiah began to doubt the righteousness of their cause such that…

Notice how vastly different Moroni and Zerahemnah perceive the same situation. Moroni declared that they have been preserved by the Lord because of their faith and Zerahemnah arches that they were preserved by their armor and their cunning. Nothing Moroni could say would change the kind of Zerahemnah because he has no desire to believe…

I’m sure Alma was guided by the Spirit in speaking to his sons—especially Corianton—but i wonder how much he knew in advance what he would say (at least the topics he would cover) and how much he figured out during the course of the conversation.

I never realized before that it was only 3 years after the neighbors have the land of Jershon to the people of Ammon that the people of Ammon allowed the people cast out from the Zoramites to have that land and they moved on to another place.

When the poor of the Zoramites asked how to plan the seed of faith to test the words of Alma he answered that they should pray and test what he had to say about them being able to pay outside the synagogues where they had been rejected. He directly addressed their specific concern and gave…

I realized tonight that there is a difference between the nations described in the Book of Mormon and the nations identified by modern archeologists. The Book of Mormon categorizes all the people in it’s chronicles under one of three headings: Nephites, Lamanites, and Jaredites. On the other hand it also describes neighbor separate gross are…

I have often wondered how the Lamanite would be so willing to allow a Nephite to usurp their throne as Amalickiah did and especially to allow the throne to be passed one Nephi’s to another as Ammoron and then his son Tubaloth subsequently returned over the Lamanites. Today it struck me that after the mission…

I find it interesting that Lamoni, his wife, and his father all awoke from their conversion experiences to find the people around them arguing so that they had to immediately begin preaching of the peace they had discovered in Christ.