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I notice that this takes for granted that "wanting a new king" and "being against the church and thus wicked" are synonymous without really justifying it.

Why does Amaliciah want to "destroy the church?" If the answer is "because they oppose him as king," why? In general, why did King Mosiah suddenly decide that monarchy was bad, after several centuries of the Nephites having kings who were mostly Christian?

WHAT IS WITH this book and variants of "Amalek?!"

It's not just that Alma knows about Jesus more than 70 years before he was born, he also knows exactly what Revelation will say about a century after Jesus' death, and the alternate interpretations of it that Augustine will write about it three centuries after that.

He does not, however, know which of those interpretations is correct.

I don't think this is how prophecy is supposed to work.

"Behold, you marvel why these things should be known so long beforehand."

No, I'm wondering why it was made known here but not in the Bible.

"Is it not as necessary that the plan of redemption should be made known unto this people as well as unto their children?"

But not the people back in the Old World, I guess.

Joseph Smith: I wonder how many times I can say the same damn thing in one monologue.

"Yea, he saw that their hearts were set upon gold, and upon silver, and upon all manner of fine goods."

What are you basing that on? Nothing they've said or done so far implies anything like that.

There are Amalekites in the New World now? How did they get there? Are they related to either Amaleki or Amulek? Does Joseph Smith just REALLY like how these letters sound together?

Also, a new Jerusalem. I mean, this was always Bible fanfic, but he's not even being subtle about it now.

Does it occur to these guys that the king might punish them for making him lose his property?

Follow-up question: did it occur to Smith?

"Now they wept because of the fear of being slain. Now when Ammon saw this his heart was swollen within him with joy."

Nice guy, Ammon.

"And Alma and Amulek went forth preaching repentance to the people in their temples, and in their sanctuaries, and also in their synagogues, which were built after the manner of the Jews."

Why did the Jewish writer feel the need to state that the Jews whom he's writing about built their Jewish house of worship "after the manner of the Jews?" How else should it have been built, 78 years before Jesus was even born?