Tag: Alma

The more I read the scriptures the more I feel that the best indicator of our current standing relative to the judgement day is how we feel about meeting God. If we are ignorant and thus not accountable we would likely feel ambivalent out else curious – it would be a thought we hadn’t really…

I love how Alma invites Zeezrom to keep an open mind so that he might learn more and more concerning the mysteries of God.

It is clear that Zeezrom was accustomed to performing for an audience as he smoothly and Amulek to answer his questions then follows with a bribe instead of a question. He expected that the listeners would ignore his subterfuge in favor of supporting his performance. He didn’t anticipate that Amulek would recognize his performance for…

The report that the lawyers would stir the people up to get more employ makes me wonder if we have a similar problem among some lawyers today who char ambulances or file weak class action lawsuits.

Amulek perceived the deception of the lawyers before they even offered him money to deny God. I never picked up on that detail before because the bribe is so prominent.

How often are people in the position where they have had the opportunity to know but have ignored what they should have heeded?

It’s sad how immediately the people of Ammonihah refuse to believe anything Alma has to say to them.

Alma could never rest after his conversion while there were people who need to hear the word of God and repent.

When Alma spoke to the people in the land of Gideon he had a message of joy to offer – it reminds me of the message that Samuel the Lamanite wanted to deliver to the people of Zerahemla decades later. Daniels story seems the more common, where the people rejected the first message and then…

There always seems to be a balance between the pull of open invitations – such as the invitation to hear the word of God out to receive baptism – and commands among the people of the Lord. The church makes no command for those who are outside the covenant and the commands for those in…