After Alma had concluded his address to the Zoramites, he sat down upon the ground, and Amulek commenced to speak to the congregation who likewise sat upon the hill before him.
Amulek immediately began his discourse by painstakingly reminding the Zoramites of Christ, Whom they, as well as he and his companions, knew as the Son of God. Of Christ, Amulek said that the Zoramites could not be ignorant. His coming, which was now proclaimed anew by the missionaries, had been taught freely unto them while yet they were numbered as members of God's Church in Zarahemla, and from which they had separated.
However, to impress upon the minds of those who had come to them for advice concerning a place to worship God know that they had been deprived of the use of their synagogue, Amulek noted to them that Alma "hath exhorted you unto faith and patience." Amulek continued to use Alma's metaphor concerning planting the "word in your hearts." The word as used here is faith in Christ. Like a seed it will swell and grow in your hearts, "even so nourish it by your faith." Then "wait for the Lord," and you will see that it is good; that it will grow into a mighty tree "springing up in you unto everlasting life." (Alma 33:23)
Alma and Amulek were quick to see and realize that what perturbed the Zoramites most was whether faith was to be exercised in the Son of God, or its alternative, "there shall be no Christ." Amulek also noted to the Zoramites that Alma had proved unto them many times that faith in Christ is unto Salvation. Amulek cited, as Alma also had done before him, the Prophets Zenos, Zenock, and Moses, "to prove that these things are true."
Amulek, now that the proper time had come, joined his own testimony with that of the prophets of old, in declaring "that these things are true." "Behold, I say unto you, that I do know that Christ shall come among the children of men, to take upon Him the transgressions of His people, and that He shall atone for the sins of the world; for the Lord God hath spoken it."
To bring about the necessary Plan of Salvation which God had made that His children should be spared from the everlasting effects of Adam's Fall, and to accomplish His purposes that they should not forever be bound by the chains of hell and be held prisoners by the grave, an Atonement which is infinite must be made.