Tag: Alma

I’ve thought before that the people of the church who dissented when Helaman began his role as prophet did so because they were attached to his predecessor/father. That may be true but it is also possible that this happened simply because once the regulation was made they were unwilling to comply and would have done…

When Helaman went preaching throughout the church to make a regulation it was because there was no option to simply distribute a letter to be read in all the congregations like we can do today. Without going along them Helaman could only know vaguely how much any discussions regulation was needed in the various parts…

Alma was able to priest with such clarity because despite the claims that the righteous can’t understand things of darkness the truth is that the righteous see wickedness and the fruits of wickedness note clearly than the wicked do (even though they may truly not understand the motivation for wickedness that others feel).

I wonder how it felt for Helaman to hear such a specific prophecy from his father about the future for his people.

Moroni didn’t even need to defend himself against the cowardly attack by Zerahemnah because his soldiers were attentive and prepared to defend him with his back turned.

Brook wrote in a recent email that she recently read Alma 26 and saw references to Russia throughout. I decided that since I was in that vicinity i would review it. I want thinking to have it as my scripture study but I wanted see if I could see what she might be referring to…

Moroni had faith so integrated into his life that in asking for the Lamanites to surrender he does so by preaching the gospel and testifying of the Lord in their victory.

The Nephites were first winning until the Lamanites felt desperate. They then had to be inspired before they could finally conquer the invaders.

Moroni was never done preparing. He was always thinking of new ways to protect his men or gain an advantage over hostile Lamanites.

I didn’t realize before that Moroni had his men in armor from their very first battle under his command. That wasn’t an innovation that he thought of after first leading his men into battle against the Lamanites.