Tag: Alma

The first thing Alma peaches is to remember the history of the church – those who have gone before. The second thing he did was ask the people of they had likewise been born of God.

In the course of 4 years Alma saw his people go from humbling themselves and repenting to becoming so generally props that they would fight and turn their backs on those in need. No wonder he abandoned the judgement seat to bear down in pure testimony.

Once the king died Nehor came preaching priestcraft. After Nehor was executed for murder Amlici spent years teaching as Nehor taught and gathering followers until he challenged the law seeking to be made king 5 years after Mosiah died. When that failed he had his followers sell to subjugate the Nephites by forever and when…

So long as just laws are applied consistently and nation should prosper in most circumstances.

I never noticed before that we are explicitly told that the sacred records held by the projects were sent forth (copied no doubt) among the people – all except those parts that Alma had declared to Helaman that should be held back lest the people pursue secret combinations after reading about them.

Executing those who would not take up arms to defend their country is a tyrannical thing to do – and yet Moroni did that after restoring Pahoran to the judgment seat. I’m not claiming that he truly was a tyrant, just noticing that without context his actions could make him appear so. Enemies would certainly…

Based on the assurances he took from Moroni’s epistle, Pahoran was ready to enact a plan to secure justice against the king-men and to provide for the armies as they deserved. Instead of being angry at Moroni he chose to enlist the aid of Moroni.

I can see where Pahoran would see the greatness in Moroni and have reason to hope that Moroni would still side with him despite the censure in his epistle. Moroni said that he would work with any who had a spark of desire for freedom. Pahoran knew that he was such a man even if…

When they had nothing temporal to rely on, Helaman and his men prayed and received assurances from the Lord so that they could be at peace and act with faith and determination despite a lack of resources.

Ammoron offered to trade a weakened city for the return of his men taken prisoner. Helaman was wise enough to counter with the assertion that they could obtain the city without giving up the prisoners. If the city hasn’t been weak enough before that the people of the city fooled so that he took it…