David Journal

Tag: Alma

  • Amulek

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    Like so many others, Amulek is obscured by the long shadow cast by Alma the younger. In some ways his story is very similar to the sorry of Alma. Amulek made a name for himself before he was converted but he didn’t need the invitations to come to Christ. He wasn’t as rebellious as Alma…

  • Nephihah

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    I wonder of Nephihah was ever unhappy about devoting his time to be the chief judge so that Alma could spend his full attention in preaching. Sometimes our path of righteousness doesn’t take us in the directions that we might have planned.

  • Aaron, Omner, and Himni

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    I put these three brothers together to highlight a common aspect of their lives – that is their willingness to diligently serve and undertake difficult challenges independent of receiving any individual distinction in their labors. They had challenges as great as Ammon but received a smaller portion of the accolades for what they all accomplished…

  • Ammon ben Mosiah

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    Though the sons of Mosiah aren’t given any individual distinction when we are told of their striving against the church with Alma the younger I wonder if Ammon was a leader among his brothers then as he certainly was in later years as a missionary among the Lamanites. While Ammon certainly knew how to lead…

  • Alma the younger

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    Alma the younger is a perfect example of why we must continue to live the sinner even as we decry their sin. Like Paul in centuries to come, Alma had inside him a great spirit to do good once it was converted. We first hear of him as one of the chief detractors wiring to…

  • Alma the elder

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    Without Alma, I wonder if we would have any record of what Abinadi said in the court of king Noah. I have no doubt that the court record, if one was even kept, would be far from accurate. Hearing Abinadi and writing his words was the beginning of Alma’s journey of repentance and righteousness. That…

  • Zenos and Zenok

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    The prophets Zenos and Zenok interest me because they are quoted in the Book of Mormon in such a way as to indicate that they were solid sources of truth (by Jacob and Alma respectively) but we have no other record of them. Zenos seems to have had the vision of eternity but we know…

  • 28 March 2014

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    Alma 63 The Nephites were left to assume that those who sailed in the ships of Hagoth died because they never heard from them again. As readers we need to recognize this as evidence that the writers had only mortal perspective, not necessarily as proof of an untimely end for the passengers.

  • 27 March 2014

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    Alma 61 – 62 I wonder if Moroni receiving the reply from Pahoran “soon after {he} had sent his epistle” is meant to indicate that the reply came faster than could have been expected. That might have been the case if Pahoran’s new base of operations after fleeing Zerahemla was close to Moroni than Zerahemla…

  • 26 March 2014

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    Alma 59 – 60 The evidence of wickedness must have been all the more obvious from the improbable defeat at Nephihah when Moroni had recently learned of the miraculous success for Helaman and his righteous soldiers. The irony of Moroni’s suggestion that Pahoran was neglecting the army because he was surrounded by security must have…