Alma 42:1-5
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Exegesis
Click the edit link above and to the right to add exegesis Some noteworthy language in this chapter: 'Man should be reclaimed' 'God would cease to be God' 'Appease the demands of justice' 'there is a punishment affixed' 'remorse of conscience' 'Mercy claimeth the penitent' 'Do ye suppose that mercy can rob justice?...not one wit' 'God bringeth about his great and eternal purposes' 'full sway in your heart'
Alma is talking to Corianton. He (Alma) just finished talking about how what you send out will return to you again. Corianton is his "sinning" son. Alma perceives that there is something that worries Corianton concerning the justice of God in punishing the sinner. So the concern to resolve is this: "It is injustice that the sinner should be consigned to a state of misery."
In vs. 2-6 Alma now turns to Adam and Eve. The flaming sword and cherubim so they wouldn't take the fruit and live forever, so a time was granted to repent, only a limited period of time, a space for repenting which, had they eaten the fruit, it is suggested, would have been destroyed. It was appointed for man to die, man became fallen. Note the conventionally characteristic difference in meaning for the word 'fallen' in this context vs. e.g. traditional Catholic views. To sum up vs. 2-6, there was a space granted.
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