00:32 – Alma demonstrates a pattern for how we can guide our children with love when they make mistakes.

03:24 – The road to transgression starts with compromise.

04:55 – Six women are specifically named in the Book of Mormon: Sarah, Sariah, Mary, Eve, Abish, and Isabel.

07:03 – A caution about always seeking to be the exception.

10:12 – Rooster moments.

13:07 – Bad decisions result in pain.

16:25 – Moses 4 is a pattern for avoiding temptation.

21:31 – Suffer not yourself to be led. An invitation to make an active choice.

28:04 – Isabel, her name, its meaning, and why Mormon put her name in the record.

35:13 – The city Siron and its meaning.

37:39 – Corianton’s concerns and questions for Alma.

40:22 – The meaning of outer darkness in this text and Elder James E. Talmage’s teaching about Hell.

42:51 – Taken home to that God who gave them life.

46:02 – The law of restitution. Everyone gets what they truly desire.

51:15 – C.S. Lewis quote about heaven working backwards.

53:38 – The meaning of the word paradise.

56:04 – Jedediah Morgan Grant’s experience in paradise shared by Heber C. Kimball.

1:01:31 – Mercy is possible because of the Redeemer. You are more than a mistake you make.

1:02:45 – Mercy cannot rob justice, if so, God would cease to be God (Alma 42:13, 22, 25). There is an order and God follows the rules.

For many of the quotes used in this podcast, see Alma 39-42 Great Quotes. For C.S. Lewis’ great quote Heaven Works Backwards, go here. For Jedidiah Grant’s vision of the Spirit World, go here. For more detail (and links) regarding the name of Isabel/Jezebel and the geographical name Siron, go here. Michael Ash’s paper The Sin Next to Murder can be read here.

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