“On What Conditions Are They Saved”

Brant Gardner

Rhetorical: Alma expects that his audience believes that Alma the Elder's church was saved. What Alma the Younger wants to do is use that experience to change the present. To do so he asks the rhetorical questions about how that earlier salvation came about. Clearly, what he intends is to set up the earlier experience as a model, and to use the reasons for the earlier salvation to model the salvation for the current church and congregation.

Multidimensional Commentary on the Book of Mormon

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