Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. Daniel Sharp, Alma Chapter 8 through 12.

I've always thought it was strange that he gets kicked out, departed Fence, as you said, he comes back in with Amulak and then they say,

who's God that sends us no more authority than one man.

They apparently didn't recognize that Amulak was his companion now.

And then Alma's like, okay, God's gonna level this place.

Now my companion would like to tell you the same thing. Go ahead,

elder. And Amulat gets up and it says, and now I'm a 10-12, the people began to be astonished seeing

there was more than one witness who testified of the things

were of they were accused, which there's that law of witnesses.

I'm glad you guys are talking about this because maybe we don't think of it as much as they

did but when amulek got up and he's like you guys know me I'm a man of no small

reputation and he says it that's when they're like oh wait a minute yeah they began to be astonished yeah and it seems

that at least some portion of this crowd is lawyers and judges because they're gonna take a prominent role in the story.

This idea of witnesses, John as you pointed out you refer to the law of witnesses.

This is a reference to Deuteronomy 1915, which says that one witness shall not rise up against a man for any

in any sin that he sineth at the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses shall the matter be

established. As Alma standing up and saying, look, God's told me this is your crime, I'm

witnessing against you your crime. They're saying look we're following the law of

Moses one witness isn't going to cut it like this isn't good enough. So now once you got that

second witness it's like oh oh we better do something to undermine that second witness, otherwise we stand

condemned according to this law.

And that's when the lawyers popped up.

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