Wrested means “pulled with twisting; distorted; perverted” (Webster, American Dictionary). “To wrest the scriptures is to twist or interpret them to mean differently than they were intended. Peter, in the New Testament, warns of the ‘unlearned and unstable’ wresting the Apostle Paul’s epistles ‘as they do also the other scriptures, unto their destruction’ (2 Peter 3:16). Wisely, Alma does not give us the false premises that had led many away. To quote these premises may plant seeds of doubt, and such has never been a substitute for truth” (Nyman, Record of Alma, 538).