“He Must Repent”

Brant Gardner

Rhetorical: Of course after the very specific listing of traits of which his congregation should be stripped, Alma formally calls for repentance. Repentance is the process by which the un-godlike is stripped from our hearts, and the healing hands of God may enter to help us. This is a greater call than to simply cease. Alma is not simply saying that they should stop being prideful - but that they should repent of being prideful. It is not saying simply stop persecuting, but to repent of persecuting. Where the stopping is a physical action, the repenting is a spiritual one, and there are tremendous differences to the soul between the cessation of an untoward action or trait, and the repentance of the same.

Multidimensional Commentary on the Book of Mormon

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