Tag: Alma
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Antipus, Gid, and Teomner
Antipus, Gid, and Teomner all serve as examples of God men who don’t have much of a footprint in the written history. I suspect that if we knew their full stories we would find each of them to be as good as Teancum overall even if they didn’t have a superior military prowess like he…
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Pahoran
Pahoran had a very challenging reign as chief judge. At the outset he had the king-men pushing for him to alter the law (likely because they saw an opportunity with the death of the original chief judge) then he had must of a decade of war where he had to try to supply two armies…
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Teancum
Teancum is among those uncommon figures in the scriptures who is good throughout his but who meets his end due to something that many would view as a character flaw. This can lead is to overlook or justify the flaw (i.e. there was nothing wrong him trying to assassinate Ammoron). It might lead is to…
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Captain Moroni
If like to think of Moroni add the greatest military commander of all time although Enoch would have been a strong contender for that title as well. The thing that made him so good at his job was that he loved his people with true charity. Not only that but he didn’t hate those he…
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General Lehi
I made up the rank here but I needed to distinguish the military figure from the patriarch of two nations. Lehi had a long career in the Nephite army. He almost certainly had more experience than Moroni when the young Moroni was selected to lead all the Nephite armies. Considering how dependable lehi was both…
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Shiblon and Corianton
The younger sons of Alma give two examples of unsung priesthood men. Shiblon is an example of being quietly dependable. He never gained any lasting notoriety but his father was pleased with his steadiness and later his brother entrusted him with keeping the sacred records. Corianton followed more in the footsteps of his father as…
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Helaman
Unlike his father, Helaman seems to have grown to maturity without rebelling against the gospel. This might be because of the experiences of his father and grandfather who each had to find the true gospel for themselves after growing up without it or rejecting it in their youth. In Helaman we find a young man…
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Lamoni’s father
The father of Lamoni is similar to his son in many ways. Out of ignorance and prejudice he first opposed the Nephites missionaries (Lamoni didn’t really oppose Ammon but he also didn’t realize that Ammon was there to preach) but once he believed he the his whole weight behind their efforts. He offered to give…
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Lamoni
I’ve always wondered how Lamoni could just declare that he would believe whatever Ammon said. Certainly such a promise is easy to give but summertime who intends to keep such a promise would need some idea that what they would hear would be believable. I’ve always thought that Lamoni had no such assurance available to…
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Zeezrom
Zeezrom is, in some ways, like a cross between Alma and Amulek. He was more antagonistic toward the church than Amulek but possibly not quite as much as Alma. When he finally opened his heart and believed he turned strongly toward righteousness and preached repentance for the remainder of his life.