Alma Chapter 41

** IMPORTANT NOTE ** Chapters 36-42 are a separate record of advice given by Alma's to his three sons. Mormon includes these chapters 36-42, before returning to include the wars hinted to in chapter 35.

Summary:

Alma continues teaching about life after death. He asserts that in resurrection we will come either to a state of endless happiness or endless misery. "Wickedness never was happiness." Since evil men are without God in this world, in the resurrection, they will be without God in the spirit world. In the resurrection, every person is restored to the characteristics that they had in mortality.

Lessons Taught/To be Learned:

Starting here in chapters 40-42, Alma's son inquires about life after we leave this world. Alma teaches about the spirit world, the Judgment, the Resurrection, and the difference of what happens to good vs. evil people. These three chapters give an excellent overview of God's plan of happiness.

Key Scriptures (italicized and in quotes):

"13 O, my son, this is not the case; but the meaning of the word restoration is to bring back again evil for evil, or carnal for carnal, or devilish for devilish—good for that which is good; righteous for that which is righteous; just for that which is just; merciful for that which is merciful."