DiscussMormonism.com

The Book of Mormon's use of Alma as a man's name has occasioned considerable amusement among uninformed critics of the book. We are not amused, nor are we uniformed! We have the scoop and are sweeping the true piles of dirt that are under the rugs of Mormon scholars. so far as modern scholarship ha...

Joseph Smith Papers [201] Smith’s husband, Warren, and ten-year-old son, Sardius, were killed; her six-year-old son, Alma, was shot in the hip. (Amanda Smith, Affidavit, Quincy, IL, 18 Apr. 1839, photocopy; Alma Smith , Affidavit, Hancock Co., IL, 3 Jan. 18400 [214] Three boys originally hid under ...

Joseph Smith Papers Alanson Ripley, Seymour Brunson, Charles [C.] Rich, Francis Higbee, Stephen Markham. Henry G. Sherwood Lyman Wight Thomas Grover King Fol[l]ett Tarlton Lewis Amanda [Barnes] Smith Isaac Laney Merrick Edwd. Partridge, Lyman Leonard, Samuel Bent Parley P. Pratt Chapman Duncan [Orr...

Joseph Smith Papers

October 1838 wrote:​October 30 Hauns Mill Massacre​ was 18 or 19 whose names as far as I recollect, were as follows: . . . . Jacob Potts, Charles Jimison, John Walker, Alma Smith aged about 9 years old

Another Alma!

Alma Smith Gender: M Birth: 1799, Danby, Rutland, Vermont ALMA SMITH ! Alma was born 5 years before Joseph Smith Jr., in the town of Rutland Vermont which is about 30 or so miles southwest of Sharon Vermont, as the crow flies. I'd say there was a good chance the Smith's in Sharon knew the Smith's i...

Heavy weight (pun intended) scholar Daniel Peterson has weighed in on the subject: “Alma,” Deception, and I Since that time, though, I’ve been told that, in fact, there were some non-Latter-day Saint American men before and during the period of Joseph Smith who may have borne the name Alma . (The co...

Mormon scholar Mike Reed explored this same approach ten years ago. He listed 47 examples of pre-Book of Mormon male Almas on his blog, "Cultural Mormon Cafeteria." Here is a link to his interesting comments posted January 23, 2010: https://culturalmormoncafeteria.blogspot.com/search?q=alma+name+ma...

And one wonders: was it an Alma whose real-life story inspired the Alma of the Book of Mormon? Mayhap it was none other than Alma Fuller himself! Which gives me reason to pause and consider another point. Both characters in the Book of Mormon named Alma were considered to be some of the more highly...

Two male characters named Alma appear in the Book of Mormon. There are dozens of Book of Mormon names which Smith used to tell stories. Some are complicated and some are not. Several are recycled names from the Old Testament, and many seem totally foreign as if they came from an unknown tongue. The...

Kishkumen wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 28, 2020 9:13 pm

Nothing would make me happier than Trump losing the election and being convicted for the many felonies he has undoubtedly committed. Now THAT is something to pray for.

You and me both. There is no way I could deal with another 4 years of that mad man in office. The whole thing has been insane.