Alma 40:16-20
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Verse 16
- How does this teaching square with our current teachings about "the morning of the first resurrection"?
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Verse 17
- What is the difference in being happy or being miserable when you are a disembodied spirit? How do you feel emotion without brain chemicals?
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Verse 18
- Alma seems to be using the word "soul" as an equivalent of what we mean when we say "spirit". How is this different from how we normally think of "soul"? Is there a difference between Alma's conception of the soul and our conception of the spirit?
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Verse 19
- Alma teaches that everyone who lives before Christ is resurrected will be resurrected before anyone who dies after that. How does that square with our current teachings about this? If we believe that Moroni has been resurrected, for Alma to be correct here, would that mean that everyone who has lived before Christ has already been resurrected? Could Alma be mistaken here? Or is there another way to read this verse?
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Verse 20
- Why would Alma offer an opinion about the timing of the resurrection? Why is Alma careful to label this part of his teaching an opinion? Does this also apply to his teaching about the timing of the resurrection of those who die before the resurrection of Christ (v.19)?
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Lexical notes
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Exegesis
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Verse 16
- Referring to Abinadi's teaching? See this comment for an argument that Alma is referring to Abinadi's teaching here.
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