Tag: Alma

I just realized that the practice of telling fortunes is a perversion based on the concept of receiving Priesthood blessings from servants of the Lord.

As I read the words of Alma I wondered how Zeezrom must have felt hearing how much less culpable the Lamanites were than he was. I realized that when Alma says that the people were with because if what he says and sought to lay hands on him Zeezrom was feeling those things as he…

I wonder how the people of Ammonihah felt being compared to the Lamanites and told that the Lord would be more merciful to their enemies than to them.

Heavenly Father knee how the people of Ammonihah would respond to Alma and so He prepared a way to answer their weak rebuttals. When they said “who is good that sabbath no more authority than one man” he had already instructed alma to bring Amulek with him as a second witness. Even they said “we…

The people of Ammonihah resisted Alma because he was no longer the chief judge. I personally think it might have been more dangerous for the church in the long run for people to choose baptism simply because he was the chief judge than to reject him because he wasn’t.

I never thought about the fact that the land/city of Gideon was less than 10 years old by the time Alma came among them. The Nephites had gone from fairly united in righteousness under a righteous king to many people fighting against our abandoning the church under the rule of judges in less than a…

When Alma is speaking to people who are essentially righteous he overeat the same invitation to repent and enter into covenants that he offers when speaking to people who have rebelled of list their way spiritually.

It just occurred to me that the city of Gideon was built after Alma was committed to the judgement seat. It didn’t even exist before this first mission for which he had given up the judgement seat. Gideon was killed while alma was chief judge and Alma condemned and sentenced his murderer.

The reason that alma ordained new elders and priests in Zerahemla after preaching there is that was enough change, either because of new people joining to require more priests or because of priests who had been among the prideful who were no longer numbered among the people of the church, so that more priests and…

While the Lord gives commandments, He didn’t force us. He doesn’t threaten us, even when He warns us.