Alma’s example “showed that Korihor was deliberately misinterpreting everything, being ‘possessed with a lying spirit’ (Alma 30:42). He answered him patiently, point by point, but it was his exemplary restraint that gave Korihor the lie. … Alma showed Korihor what real freedom was, putting him under no restraint whatsoever, though he openly defied the highest authorities. Korihor was perfectly free to teach the people anything he chose, for ‘there was no law against a man’s belief; for it was strictly contrary to the commands of God that there should be a law which should bring men on to unequal grounds’ (Alma 30:7). ‘Now if a man desired to serve God, it was his privilege, … but if he did not believe in him there was no law to punish him’ (Alma 30:9) or to put him at a disadvantage, for the idea was that ‘all men were on equal grounds’ (Alma 30:11)” (Nibley, Prophetic Book of Mormon, 342–43).