David Journal

Tag: Alma

  • God’s view of Justice vs Mercy

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    When Abinadi prophesied about the seed of King Noah I think he was talking both about them putting people to death by fire for their belief and also the fact that they would subsequently be hunted for doing so. It’s very clear about that in Alma 25:12 but I had always focused on what the…

  • Was there another option?

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    I’m not blaming the Lamanite king but i wonder if there was a better way that he could have handled the division among his people before he died. Knowing that certain cities had converted while others had rejected the message of Aaron and his brethren, was there a way he could confirm the kingdom of…

  • Dealing with contention

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    And it came to pass as he began to expound these things unto them they were angry with him, and began to mock him; and they would not hear the words which he spake. Therefore, when he saw that they would not hear his words, he departed out of their synagogue, Alma 21:10-11 This is…

  • Traditions that were not correct

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    The sons of Mosiah wanted to bring the Lamanites to understand the baseness of the traditions of their fathers that were not correct. Previously I read that as saying that the Lamanite traditions were not correct but now I consider that it may mean only that some of their traditions were not correct. Jacob had…

  • Be careful of what you start

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    And it came to pass that he began to cry unto the people, saying: Behold, I am guilty, and these men are spotless before God. And he began to plead for them from that time forth; but they reviled him, saying: Art thou also possessed with the devil? And they spit upon him, and cast…

  • Foreknowledge of God

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    I always used to think that the foreknowledge of God regarding those who would be high priests was interesting but this time I had the feeling that the righteousness they displayed wasn’t referring to what they did in the premortal life. I realized that this was referring to them making righteous choices in their mortal…

  • Infinite Atonement

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    And Amulek said unto him: Yea, he is the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth, and all things which in them are; he is the beginning and the end, the first and the last; And he shall come into the world to redeem his people; and he shall take upon him the transgressions…

  • The opening message

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    As I read this i realized that Alma didn’t record his initial message to the people of Ammonihah. He started his record at the point that they were trying to reject what he had already said.

  • His mortal mission

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    And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people. And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his…

  • The conditions of salvation

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    And now I ask of you on what conditions are they saved? Yea, what grounds had they to hope for salvation? What is the cause of their being loosed from the bands of death, yea, and also the chains of hell? Behold, I can tell you—did not my father Alma believe in the words which…