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Talk:Alma 10:1-11:46

User:RM Matheson wrote:

  • v. 10:25 Amulek perhaps "mixed his metaphors" when he talked about being blind so they couldn't understand the spoken words.

Hi RM Matheson. Not sure but I think there is no mixed metaphor here. I think mixing metaphors requires two metaphors. Here we only have one--the one about being blind. The fact that they couldn't understand the spoken words I think is meant to be taken literally. --Matthew Faulconer 05:11, 6 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Verses 11:28-29

Alma 11: 28-29 "Now Zeezrom said: Is there more than one God?" How would we respond to this question from an investigator in in our day? Would we respond differently as a missionary today than Amulek did? I think I would. --RM Matheson 01:26, 2 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Your question reminds me of the verse D&C 121:28 that I've always wondered about. I went ahead and wrote up a related question there.
>Would we respond differently as a missionary today than Amulek did?
If I got a question like this I would assume it is a trap, try to avoid the question directly and just talk about what we believe starting with God the Father, then Jesus Christ then the Holy Ghost. If asked specifically around whether we believe that others can become gods I would say yes.
In this particular case I feel like Zeezrom is trying to trap Amulek. In verse 35 it looks like Zeezrom is going to use Amulek's claim that there only is one God as part of his trap. It isn't clear to me thouh exactly how Zeezrom intends to use Amulek's claim that there is only one God against him. --Matthew Faulconer 06:32, 2 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Does verse 29 necessarily imply that Amulek had a different understanding of God and gods than Joseph Smith? I would argue it does not. If Joseph Smith were asked the same question, I think he could (I don't claim knowledge if he would) answer "yes, there is one God", and "yes, there are many gods".

I also think the answer would depend on who is asking the question. If it were a Chrstian investigator whom we suspected had heard some of the so-called anti-Mormon literature on this topic, we should probably answer the question differently than if a, say, non-Christian Buddhist were asking if we believed in many Gods (or gods).

--RobertC 14:27, 9 Dec 2005 (UTC)