“We may conclude that Alma held the priesthood before he, with others, became disturbed with King Noah. … If he had authority to baptize that is evidence that he had been baptized. Therefore, when Alma baptized himself with Helam that was not a case of Alma baptizing himself, but merely as a token to the Lord of his humility and full repentance. … Alma did not organize the Church with the idea that they had no church before that time. They had a church from the days of Lehi, and Alma only set things in order” (Smith, Answers to Gospel Questions, 3:203–4).