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| − | == Questions ==
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| − | ===Verse 44===
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| − | * "''signs enough.''" If the prophets taught that "many signs" ([[Hel 14:6]]) would precede the Savior's birth, then how does this verse help us determine what is the appropriate or adequate number of signs for the Lord's people?
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| − | * "''Tempt.''" What does Alma mean by using the word "tempt" here? Where else in LDS scripture is this term used, and what are the connotations? How does this word differ from the related (at least in Hebrew) words ''prove'' and ''try''? How are these words used in similarly and differently in LDS scripture, and the Book of Mormon in particular? (Cf. lexical note for [[James 1:13]].)
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| − | * "''your God.''" Did the use of this phrase by speakers in the scriptures always carry with it the presumption that there was only one God? Or does [[2 Chr 32:14]]-15 offer an example of how this phrase could be used to refer to someone else's God? Why does this verse not follow the nearly consistent pattern in the Old Testament of referring to Jehovah as "the Lord your God"? How did Alma decide whether it was more appropriate to speak of "our God" or of "your God"?
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| − | * "''Show . . . me a sign.''" Was Alma unnecessarily repeating the request that Korihor had already made in the previous verse? Why did Alma use the future tense, since presumably it signaled that Korihor had not yet made the request? Or was Alma trying to say that Korihor did not need to make his request, because the answer was already before him?
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| − | * "''have the testimony.''" Was Alma echoing the language of John in [[Rev 12:17]] and [[Rev 19:10]]? If so, was he implying that, at some level, Korihor already had a testimony?
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| − | * "'brethren and prophets.'" Does [[Alma 20:15]] provide a precedent for equating these two social groups? Or was Alma actually making a distinction between the inspired words of these two different groups?
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| − | == Lexical notes ==
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| − | * ''Click the edit link above and to the right to add lexical notes''
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| − | == Exegesis ==
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| − | We see over and over in the Book of Mormon that signs do not convert. Take Laman and Lemuel for instance. Over and over they experienced physical signs (i.e. visitations from angels, hearing the voice of the Lord, etc), however, they never became truly converted, and in the end they fell away from the truth.
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| − | In verses 41-42 Alma states that he knows these things are true, and that he knows that Korihor also knows the truth. One can picture Alma looking Korihor in the eye, feeling the Spirit witness the truth of what Alma has been teaching, and knowing that Korihor is also feeling the Spirit. Then in verse 44 Alma says 'Thou hast had signs enough...', listing all the various physical evidences, and in verse 46 he says '..that ye will still resist the spirit of the truth...' refering to the witness of the Spirit that Korihor is denying.
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| − | == Related links ==
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| − | * See [[User:Brettferre/Alma 30:41-45]] for quotes by George A. Smith and Michael Parson.
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| − | * Post and comments on Korihor at the [http://alma32.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/alma-30-31-2/ Alma 32 Experimental e-Seminary in Mormon Theology].
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