Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. Brent Top, Alma 30 through 31.

So Brent, we've looked at Corohor, and now we have Alma's response.

What do you want us to see here?

Like John said earlier, there may be more to the story that's not in the Book of Mormon record

as to Corohor's arrest and what crimes he had committed that would warrant his, I guess you

would say, arrest or being brought before the high priest and the chief judge. I do like the way that Alma reasons with

Corohor and says, okay, you say this, you tell me why you say this and you have brought about so much pain and

suffering why are you doing that?

Then we come and see right here,

verse 35, Alma says, why sayest thou

that we preach unto this people to get gain.

Now I found that interesting once again so now he's

throwing out a whole new thing.

He's contradicting his own philosophy.

Well, if it doesn't matter what people do, if they want to prosper according to their own skill and talent and ability,

why are you care whether I prosper?

And now believe us now that we deceive this people that causes such joy in their hearts?

Are we the ones that are causing the suffering there? But I love that Alma then said,

okay, will you really deny? Will you deny God? Will you deny the Christ and he says yep I will I will and he

says what evidence do you have that there is no God?

You've been saying everything has to be by evidence,

by rationale and empiricism, reason, science, and now Alma says, well what evidence do you have that there is no

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