Alma's fear was that Nehor would "prove their entire destruction." Alma clearly saw Nehor's religious ideas as so divisive that the social fabric would be irreparably torn. We see in Ammonihah a very clear demonstration that Alma's fears were well founded. In Alma, the differences in ideas not only result in the persecution of Alma and Amulek, but of all those who believed the words of Alma and Amulek.