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For the show notes for both episodes covering the war chapters, go to Alma 43-63 – The War Chapters. For the excerpt from Andy Andrews’ book How do you Kill 11 Million People? go here.Continue Reading

For the show notes for both episodes covering the war chapters, go to Alma 43-63 – The War Chapters. Alma 43 – Standing for truth Alma 43 – Deception Alma 46-48 – The power of one Alma 48 – Wisdom: a proper balance Alma 48:11 – Tolkien quote Alma 49-51 –Continue Reading

For many of the quotes used in this podcast, see Alma 39-42 Great Quotes. Michael Ash’s paper The Sin Next to Murder can be read here. Alma 39 – The Law of Chastity For more detail regarding the name of Isabel/Jezebel and the geographical name Siron, go here. Alma 40-41 – The resurrection and justiceContinue Reading

Alma 36-40 – Principles of effective parenting Alma 36-38 Quotes and Notes For a brief explanation of chiasmus, go here. For a visual demonstration (PDF) of the chiastic structure of Alma 36, go here. For Scripture Central’s excellent video of John Welch explaining his personal discovery of chiasmus in the text ofContinue Reading

For the quotes used in this podcast, see Alma 32-35 Great Quotes. For an excellent review of the Greek notion of faith or pistis (πίστις), I highly recommend this video of Brent Schmidt’s presentation at BYU in 2019. You can access a copy of Brent Schmidt’s excellent book Relational Faith here. You can access aContinue Reading

There is so much going on behind the scenes in Alma 17-18. To read Hugh Nibley’s argument for the background of the scattering of the flocks at the Waters of Sebus, as well as Brant Gardner’s argument that this is a political rivalry, go here: Alma 18.7 – A Practice ofContinue Reading

Alma 13 – Melchizedek, Kingship, Psalm 110, and Jesus Christ Alma 13 – Talents in the pre-earth life Text of 11Q13 from the Dead Sea Scrolls – The Melchizedek Document Alma 14 – The problem of evil in the Book of Mormon For C.S. Lewis’ quote Heaven Works Backwards, go here. AlmaContinue Reading

To see Reid Bankhead’s quote about the meaning of the word Anti-Christ, go here. An overview of Alma versus Korihor in Alma 30 is available here along with Austin Farrar’s quote. Martin Rees’ book Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe is available here and you can listen to it onContinue Reading

For more information about our discussion regarding the resurrection beliefs of the Jews before Christ, read “Resurrection in the Book of Mormon.” For more information regarding the specific teachings of The Order of the Nehors, go here. August Landmesser refused to give the Nazi salute and was photographed (see photo here) atContinue Reading