Brant Gardner notes that in response to an Amalekite's heckling, Aaron begins with a question: "Believest thou that the Son of God shall come to redeem mankind from their sins?" One might wonder why such a question, but it has to do with the order of Nehor culture. Aaron's question probes exactly where the Nehorite error lies. One of the first alterations that the order of the Nehors makes in Nephite doctrine is the removal of the Atoning Messiah. The response of the Amalekite will be to first deny this doctrine of an Atoning Messiah ("we do not believe"), and second to deny there is any evidence for that doctrine ("thou knowest [not] of things to come"), and third to impugn the tradition that would lead one to believe that way ("thy fathers and also . . . our fathers did [not] know concerning the things which they spake"). The Amalekite is not only dismissing the belief in the Atoning Messiah, but also in the principle of revelation. [Brant Gardner, Book of Mormon Commentary, [http://www.highfiber.com/~nahualli/LDStopics/Alma/] Alma21.htm, p. 6]