Tag: Alma

As I read the words of Amulek I begin to wonder if I am like Amulek in that I have failed to hear many times as I have been called. If so I don’t know what I have been called to do but I feel that if I have I have certainly failed to hear.

This record of Alma’s preaching in Ammonihah was clearly written after the fact. The way that and editorializes suggests that he wasn’t simply keeping a record but that he considered this experience to be an important one to record and share with future generations.

I notice that the Lord claims the people of Ammonihah as His even though they reject Him as their God. They are His because they inherited the land and it’s promises that He had given to their fathers. We should be careful in judging who belongs to the Lord because He is not known for…

How could sins know that the people in Gideon were in the paths if righteousness. I have to assume that the Spirit helped him perceive the meaning behind their reactions to his words. Perhaps they were more receptive and attentive to his words and less combative when he spoke.

I wonder whether this regulation by Alma – as people joined our were removed from the records of the church in Zerahemla – saw the total number of church members grow out shrink.

I have sometimes thought that when Alma the younger speaks to the people of Zerahemla about “their fathers” who were delivered from the armies of King Noah that many of those hearing him we’re not descendants of that group. I realized today that when those groups came together and shared their histories and reacted to…

We can’t afford to forget that even when the authority of God is vested in an organization that doesn’t prevent that organization from becoming wicked – if it did there could have been no apostasy. Alma lived to see a time when the people of the church we leading unbelievers on to increasing wickedness. The…

When people come out in rebellion against God they feel compelled to make clear their opposition to that which they once identified with.

I’ve thought about the system of judges among the Nephites but I never really thought of the implications before. They were governed by existing law but the people could put anything up for a bit as they were to conduct their society “by the voice of the people.” Amlici used that to try to become…

Alma understood that the people could survive having priestcraft practiced among them but that if it were enforced the people would become corrupted and become fallen.