“I Have Repented of My Sins”
This statement follows three days and three nights in which Alma’s soul was, in his own words, “racked with eternal torment”; he suffered “the pains of hell” and “inexpressible horror”; he experienced the “gall of bitterness” and was “encircled about by the everlasting chains of death” (Alma 36:12-19). Alma’s experience dramatizes the fact that clearly confession cannot supplant the need for the experience of repentance. See verses 28-29.
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