Tag: Alma

Alma 49 Amalickiah blamed his loss in Moroni while the Nephites ascribed their victory to God.

Alma 48 I wonder if any of the Lamanites pondered the incongruity of their Nephite king sending men to peach against the Nephites in his new kingdom. It’s funny that Amalickiah coffee his military captains based on their familiarity with the Nephite defenses considering that the whole time he was gaining his power over the…

Alma 47 Amalickiah probably didn’t plan on becoming king of the Lamanites before having the Lamanites conquer the Nephites but He certainly jumped when he saw the opportunity. The Lamanites were a purple who were willing to believe whatever sensational thing they were told. Most of us are much the same today.

Alma 46 The lessons of this chapter are more than the comparison of one very wicked man (Amalickiah) with one very righteous man (Moroni) as I have likely noted before. It also includes a lesson that when the people begin to turn to wickedness the people who adopt the wickedness of the day include those…

Alma 45 I suspect that Alma shared this prophecy with Helaman because he had seen it in a vision much like the one Nephi had seen concerning his seed. When Alma passed the care of the church to Helaman there soon arose dissenters who wouldn’t heed Helaman. I wonder if part of the strength of…

Alma 43 – 44 Is the Amalekites and the Zoramites had been prepared with armor they might have commenced the battle against the armored Nephites despite the fact that their men were virtually naked. only self-preservation stopped them from that first attack. It was, perhaps, culturally unacceptable to use the kinds of deception in battle…

Alma 41 – 42 I wonder whether the confusion regarding the doctrine was a cause our an effect of Corianton’s lack of understanding regarding the basic doctrine of Christ. The doctrinal confusion of Corianton led him away from righteousness. it may be that the initial confusion was caused because of unrighteousness but we can’t know…

Alma 39 – 40 It seems that all of Corianton’s problems stemmed from him not having internalized the doctrine of Christ.

Alma 38 This counsel to Shiblon parallels the counsel to Helaman minus anything related to keeping the sacred records. Even in the counsel that is included this is a shorter version possibly because Alma had time to share such counsel with Shiblon throughout their shared mission to the Zoramites which didn’t include Helaman.

Alma 37 Alma counseled Helaman to reach the people those parts of the Jaredite record that were useful in encouraging them to be righteous but to avoid sharing those parts that were useful only to reach the way of wickedness.