Tag: Alma
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Pure Testimony
Alma saw the solution to the great inequality and wickedness as bearing pre testimony among the people of the wickedness and price that was manifest as well as the coming of the Savior who would have them abandon their price and seek Him in humility.
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Inequality of attitude
We decided inequalities of income or outcome but do we understand that inequalities of attitude are more important? The people went from poor to wealthy in two years but the inequality wasn’t that some were richer than others, it was that some were willing to care for those in need while others kept only for…
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A time to fight
We from the example here that sometimes it is necessary to fight regardless of a person’s righteousness. The key is to maintain a connection with and orientation toward God.
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Torn apart
In the Civil War there was a general geographic separation between the two factions. What was it like with the Amlicites who were looked soap along the rest of the Nephites?
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Ancient Civil War
I feel like the story of Amlicites is very similar in form to the story of how the Civil War began.
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A pattern of decay
I notice a pattern that follows in the wake of before. The righteous were persecuted and then began to exhibit pride. Some were removed for their sins while others removed themselves from the church. We see the same pattern today among some church members.
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The whole law points to Christ
The whole law of Moses was supposed to point to Christ. Likewise, the whole gospel since Christ should always point to Christ. Any other focus is looking beyond the mark.
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The Atonement was the Plan
Without the perfect example of Christ and His selfless and sinless sacrifice of His life there would be no Plan of Salvation. Without that, the most there could be would be a plan of morality in which we temporarily received bodies of flesh.
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Half-hearted salvation
Father in Heaven didn’t offer a plan to barely save His children not did Jesus attempt to gain only a cursory put academic understanding of our pains, sickness, and shortcomings. The plan was designed and fulfilled with full and complete physical/mortal understanding of of the trials and temptations that we face during this mortal journey.…
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Major changes
After the end of the war there were massive changes in Nephite society as people left to settle new lands. They were never the same nation as they had been before the war.