The refusal to follow the law of Moses and the performances of the church designate the two laws that were to be lived. The purpose of the law of Moses was to bring them to Christ (see Galatians 3:24; Alma 25:15), but the law had become dead unto the Nephites because they had come unto Christ and had been given the higher law of Christ (see 2 Nephi 25:24–27). Although the people of the apostate King Noah had reverted back to the law of Moses from the higher law of Christ (Mosiah 12–13), the Zoramites had been living the higher law (Alma 31:8); however, they had forsaken both laws and initiated or embraced a much different form of worship (vv. 9–10). Most of the details of their worship are not given (v. 11), but the practices and beliefs that are described in the following verses seem somewhat similar to some of the present practices and beliefs in apostate Christianity today. Perhaps some of these variations were borrowed from pagan worship in both time periods.