Tag: Alma

It matters not how long you have nourished the tree of faith, if you neglect the tree long enough before you have received its fruit it will wither in the heat.

Alma casts it as a blessing that the people were compelled to be humble so that they wouldn’t be satisfied with the false beliefs of their society because they sought for answers that would have been much less urgent of they had been affluent.

When Alma saw the perverse worship of the Zoramites he knew that teaching them was beyond what he was capable of doing himself. He knew that he and his fellow labourers would need to rely on the Lord of they were to have any success.

Alma had learned that the word of God had more effect on people than the sword. I’m learning to use love and persuasion rather than fear as motivation in the belief that it will be more effective.

Notice that Korihor was not judged based on the secular law even though his trial was conducted in the presence of the chief judge.

It occurred to me tonight that one reason Korihor was so bold while he was bound and brought before the chief priests of various lands was that he knew he was legally protected in all that he had taught – he knew that the law could have no hold on him and he fully expected…

Believers in Christ desire liberty and will protect the beliefs of non-believers. Atheists must insist upon their tightness and will attack the right of others to believe as they choose.

I think it is recording and pondering on the mission of his friends that has Alma wishing that he we an angel who could declare the word among all people.

The are many forms of inconsequential inequality but the only form of meaningful inequality of the difference in how the righteous and the wicked are rewarded in heaven – and that inequality of fully just.

How much effort and time was required my the Nephites in deliberating the request of the people of Ammon before they offered the land of Jershon?