Tag: Alma
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Faith
As Alma describes the nature of faith it is clear that faith is like a muscle in that it grows with exercise and atrophies with neglect. It is also clear that faith cannot begin to grow without making the choice to exercise a particle of faith and let it have place in your heart. Likewise…
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Compelled to be humble
Alma is quick to remind people that being compelled to be humble isn’t necessarily a bad thing and that sometimes people in that situation choose to truly repent . In other words, the people he was speaking to had an opportunity to choose how they would respond and could choose to make this a good…
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Centered in Christ
Alma is pained when he sees a people declaring that the doctrine of Christ is fictitious. His response is to seek for his pain to be swallowed up in Christ.
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Worshipping an idea
The Zoramites didn’t worship God, they worshipped a theological idea that absolved them of any effort.
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Problems ahead
While many people might have been unaware of what was happening with the Zoramites, those who were paying attention were concerned about the possible ramifications of their separation from the Nephites. I’m sure that Alma was in the minority in thinking that preaching the gospel among them was the best way to head off the…
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Hiding behind agnosticism
When faced with a curse upon himself, Korihor pretended to be agnostic rather than maintain the atheistic position he had been claiming before. All the while he was lying because he knew in his heart that God was real – despite what he had been teaching.
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Blasphemy
It seems to be a pattern that people such as Korihor who boldly invite people to listen to and follow them soon have no correlation between the truth and their words. Korihor was willing to claim that the priests were glutting themselves on the people even though he knew that wasn’t true. He didn’t say…
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The doctrine of Korihor
I can see how the doctrine of Korihor would be appealing to the natural man. I can see how it would become popular among people. What surprised me is the timing of when he came among the people – they were still fresh off of beating back the Lamanites.
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Wishful thinking
The reason that Alma is wishing to be an angel preaching to the ends of the earth is because he had just finished recording the remarkable success of his friends, the sons of Mosiah. I don’t think it is actual jealousy, just that momentary imagining the joy that would come by doing such marvelous missionary…
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In summary
The conclusion of this whole transaction was that the Lamanites attached the people of Ammon in the land of the Nephites and were defeated again. This left a new balance of population and a new political mixture of the seed of Lehi. At least among the Nephites there was a massive reminder of the sorrows…