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(00:00) Alma demonstrates a pattern for how we can guide our children with love when they make mistakes.
(03:05) The road to transgression starts with compromise.
(07:02) A caution about always seeking to be the exception.
(10:09) Rooster moments.
(13:00) Bad decisions result in pain.
(16:17) Moses 4 is a pattern for avoiding temptation.
(20:44) Suffer not yourself to be led. An invitation to make active choices.
(22:18) Surround yourself with support. Don’t hide when you’ve done something dumb.
(26:55) Six women are specifically named in the Book of Mormon: Sarah, Sariah, Mary, Eve, Abish, and Isabel. Some meanings of Isabel’s name and why Mormon may have put her name in the record.
(36:03) Corianton’s concerns and questions for Alma.
(38:06) The meaning of outer darkness in this text and Elder James E. Talmage’s teaching about Hell.
(41:07) Taken home to that God who gave them life.
(43:50) The law of restitution. Everyone gets what they truly desire.
(48:52) C.S. Lewis’ quote about heaven working backwards.
(51:50) Meanings of the word paradise.
(54:14) Jedediah Morgan Grant’s experience in paradise shared by Heber C. Kimball.
(57:36) Mercy is possible because of the Redeemer. You are more than a mistake you make.
(1:00:44) Mercy cannot rob justice, if so, God would cease to be God (Alma 42:13, 22, 25).
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