Tag: Alma

Amalikiah was wise in the way he used the resources he had to their greatest effect – making the Zoramites the chief captains in his army for example – and I think Abinadi any opponent other than Moroni he would have succeeded in his designs on that first attempt but Moroni was the type of…

What was it about the Lamanite nation that they could do easily be used and manipulated by dissenting Nephites? Amalikiah was the most successful but many others were able also to use this “enemy” nation.

I wonder if Moroni’s initial treat of his coat was mainly out of frustration or if he tore it with the idea of something like the Title of Liberty in mind.

How many times do we need to be reminded that being a faithful member if the church doesn’t prevent a person from becoming greedy or selling for power. When there is a movement in society away from that which is his, members of the church are no less susceptible than other people..

Some people would have a hard time never seeing their father laid to rest. Some might not be affected by such an event. For Helaman it would have been a special circumstances as the suppose that Alma was simply taken by the Lord without death. In that case I would expect that Helaman was at…

We don’t know anything about the skill level of the particular soldier who took the scalp of Zerahemnah. He may have been Ellie, or he may just as well have been relatively novice. In any case, I am confident that in the moment when Zerahemnah charged Moroni this nearby soldier responded instinctively with utter clarity…

The exchange between Moroni and Zerahemnah reminds me of the different perspectives between North and South regarding the motivations for the Civil War. The North recognized slavery as the key topic of dispute while the South viewed states rights as the overriding question to be resolved.

Moroni must have been an extremely charismatic young man to be entrusted at 25 with the leadership over the entire army of the Nephites.

The key to answering Corianton’s concern about the justice if wrens punishment is the understanding a law with no consequence is no law. Without a lawful standard any judgment, whether favorable out unfavorable, would be arbitrary and thus unjust.

After laying the doctrinal foundation for Corianton, Alma clears up the nature of the restoration that is promised after death. That seems to have been the main question in the mind of Corianton.