Hello everyone. Welcome to follow him. My name is Hank Smith. I'm your host. I'm here with my precious co-host John by the way and our guest Dr Brent Top. John we're taking on two very interesting

chapters in the book of Alma we've been talking about Alma going on his big reactivation tour. We've gone through the Sons of

Mosiah going on missions and then the book takes a little bit of a turn as we talk about

apostasy. What are you thinking as we head into these?

I'm just amazed at how the Book of Mormon has these different sections like you just mentioned.

Here's how you talk to people who don't know anything about God. Here's how you talk to people who know but who are slacking.

And then we're going to encounter somebody who says there is no God. And then we're going to go see

the Zormites who say, well, there is but he's like this and one of the huge questions

is what is God like what is his nature and one of the things that I hope we all are coming to learn is about a

loving Heavenly Father that is like at the top of everything. I look forward to

these because in one way you might think why did they include this I thought it was really hard to engrave on plates you're going to tell us the story of an anti-Christ I'm looking forward to talking it through.

Yeah, and not just telling a little brief, hey, there's this guy named Corhor, it's a long

chapter.

Everything he taught.

Here to help us, John is Dr. Brent top. Brent, what are we going to talk about today?

You and I talked about this a couple of months ago. You said something interesting about choosing

you as the guest here.

I thought immediately when you asked me to do it that I was being typecast that you thought,

who do I think of when I think of Corohor. That was kind of my first reaction was, well, did John and Hank think I'm an expert on apostasy? Why me? Why couldn't I have Alma 32 instead of 30 and 31? I think these two chapters probably illustrate as well as anything else in the Book of Mormon

of why the Book of Mormon was written for our day.

That to me is the value of these two chapters.

Absolutely.

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