Tag: Alma

The promises of protection for the plates that Joseph Smith received when he got them were the same as the ones that Helaman received from Alma as Alma turned over those responsibilities.

When Alma desperately wished not to exist and especially to not come before God he had to call out to his Savior. When he longer to stand with the angels singing praises to God he was returned to mortality so that he could live out this life with the changed heart.

The leaders of the Zoramites sound like liberal politicians. Politicians in that they discovered the positions if carrots people without revealing their own positions, and lovers in that they banished those that disagreed with them and insisted on others banishing them as well.

When the law justly demands the life of him who murdered it may be fair but it doesn’t actually rectify the original murder. More so if there are multiple murders to his credit. Here the atonement if Christ does even more than wash away the guilt of the murderer. If he truly repented, the atonement…

I’m grateful to have the book of Mormon where some of the wisdom of Zenos and Zenock are preserved for our day.

Knowing that the seed is good is true knowledge but it isn’t the same as knowing what it is like to partake of the fruit and be filled. When some people say they know the Lord they may be telling the truth and yet not have the same degree of knowledge of the Lord as…

When Alma prays to be strengthens so that he might beat with the addictions that he would suffer because of the wickedness of the people I suspect most people think of things like being taunted, stabbed, imprisoned, or assaulted. Certainly those things would be included in his request but I feel that he was thinking…

Corridor could legally teach his beliefs and there was no cause to bring him before the judges. When he began to lie and defame the leaders of the church then there was a legal case to be made against him.

I just realized what it means to harrow up. Harrowing is what Farmers do to prepare their field for planting. I already knew that, but I just thought about the prices and it’s purpose and effect on the field. Harrowing is done after plowing and serves to break up the dirt to soften it for…

The world tells us that inequality is in things like wealth, fame, privilege etc. But the scriptures tell us that whatever surface inequality those may present, the true inequality comes for sin. When we soon we out ourselves in the path of consequences that make us truly unequal with those who chose righteousness.