Why is it that when we discuss Alma’s redemption story we always call it a conversion story? When Alma himself recounts it, in Mosiah 27 and Alma 36, he never once says he was “converted”, but rather he says he was born again, redeemed, changed from the carnal man to a state of righteousness. These are important words! In a word Alma was saved.
So why don’t we used these words? Wouldn’t it help us to understand the meaning of re-birth, and redemption, and reconciliation with God, if we used the very words that Alma himself used?
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VardellJuly 16, 2020
Why is it that when we discuss Alma’s redemption story we always call it a conversion story? When Alma himself recounts it, in Mosiah 27 and Alma 36, he never once says he was “converted”, but rather he says he was born again, redeemed, changed from the carnal man to a state of righteousness. These are important words! In a word Alma was saved. So why don’t we used these words? Wouldn’t it help us to understand the meaning of re-birth, and redemption, and reconciliation with God, if we used the very words that Alma himself used?
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