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#PersonalStudy #BookOfMormon
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/56?id=p3#p3

These boys were Lamanites. They were a credit to the idea of Lamanites, though we know that the only real definition of the disparate "Lamanites" was, "not Nephites."

#PersonalStudy #BookOfMormon https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/55?id=p19#p19 Alma 55:19 But behold, this was not the desire of Moroni; he did not delight in murder or bloodshed...

Moroni does not delight in bloodshed; he keeps the bigger picture in mind. In the leadership of our own lives, what is our bigger picture?

#PersonalStudy #BookOfMormon https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/54?id=p22#p22

And if it so be that there is a devil and a hell, behold will he not send you there to dwell with my brother whom ye have murdered, whom ye have hinted that he hath gone to such a place? But behold these things matter not.

Murder of his brother -- Teancum's actions totally left them open to such critique.

#PersonalStudy #BookOfMormon https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/54?id=p23#p23
Ammoron uses his story to express victimhood, and justification. Zoramites have various stories they could draw from, so Ammoron has chosen one which appeals to his pride. See also https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/david-b-paxman_zoram-and-i-getting-our-stories-straight/

#PersonalStudy #BookOfMormon https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/53?id=p18#p18

The sons of Helaman were Lamanites. However, there were no brother-on-brother issues of them fighting other Lamanites because Lamanites are so diverse a body, coming from many surrounding peoples not mentioned in the Book of Mormon.

#PersonalStudy https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/50?lang=eng&id=p21#p21

"Whoredoms." Rarely in the #BookOfMormon does it blame the prostitutes, but rather the users. The exception is Isabel, but that got personal.

#PersonalStudy #BookOfMormon https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/49?lang=eng&id=p4#p4
Here is the common lesson about the importance of #preparation, #prophylaxis, and #SpiritualStrongholds. But two other amazements are first that #fortifying was apparently a novel idea to Moroni's inspiration, and also not thought of before by the Lamanites, who evidently did not know how to deal with it. Not too much later, fortifying will be a normal thing for both Nephites and Lamanites.

#PersonalStudy #BookOfMormon https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/47

True villainy: Deceit, tricking into a #SlipperySlope, greed, murder, more deceit.

What was going through the minds of the Lamanites who were effected by this power-shift?

Never in U.S. history has there been such a distrust in leadership which allowed aberrants to get into power. Perhaps something similar effected the Lamanites who silently allowed evil to go relatively uncontested to the throne.