Tag: Alma

Alma is clear that all men experience both good and evil in their lives. Those who are taught the difference between good and evil will receive as their reward good it evil according to their desires while those who do not know the difference are held blameless.

With the establishment of the people of Ammon in Jershon the descendants of Lehi entered a new era where there were Lamanites descendants living among the Nephites and Nephite descendants living among the Lamanites. No longer was parentage the determinant of political affiliation.

What conversation was it that brought the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi to be willing to stay and suffer death in their land rather than seek refugee among the Nephites unless the Lord should direct them to leave? They truly had no fear of death.

How often do we look back and realize how little we comprehended what the Lord intended with some particular work? When we remember our past perspective and compare it to a more advanced understanding we will often find ourselves in wonder as Ammon did.

How many of the Lamanites were converted not when they first heard the sons of Mosiah but after following the Amalekites and Amulonites and finding themselves hating what they were doing?

Notice that the cities where people we’re converted were the areas where Amulon and his descendants were absent while the city Amulon founded, the city he later riled (Helam), and the city founded by his descendants and other Nephite dissenters were the heart of the opposition to those who were converted.

Aaron didn’t simply read the scriptures to the king, he exposed them. I realized tonight the significance of that word, “expound.” It indicates that Aaron stopped regularly in the scriptural account to ask and answer questions to ensure that the king was understanding what was being read. Aaron asked questions in places where the king…

The man who not only rejoiced at his life but also desired to learn more from Ammon and his brethren was the side of Lamoni’s father that Lamoni had expected to deal with when he was first confronted. Although the king was determined to have his way, he was also at heart a good man.

The fact that some of the people of Lamoni were arguing that the Great Spirit has always favored the minutes suggests that those making that argument were open to new ways of looking at their situation and thus were prepared to receive the word of God.

When Ammon declared that he was simply a man Lamoni still believed he was the Great Spirit. This indicates that his understanding of the great Spirit was comparable to the Roman beliefs about their gods – that they were powerful but not necessarily trustworthy – that he might lie when it suited him. On the…