How to Be Reclaimed from the Fall of Adam

Title

How to Be Reclaimed from the Fall of Adam

Book Title

Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Chapter

17

Year of Publication

2007

Authors

Editors

Strathearn, Gaye (Secondary), and Swift, Charles (Secondary)

Pagination

223-236

Publisher

Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University

City

Provo, UT/Salt Lake City

Abstract

When Alma the Younger returned to Zarahemla following his mission to the Zoramites, “he caused that his sons should be gathered together, that he might give unto them every one his charge, separately, concerning the things pertaining to righteousness”. The Book of Mormon contains a significantly larger amount of counsel from Alma to his wayward son Corianton than to Helaman and Shiblon. Within Alma’s teachings, we discover a concise explanation of the Fall of Adam and three elements necessary to reclaim each individual from the Fall, namely, death, the Atonement, and the Resurrection. This chapter will discuss the Fall of Adam and these three elements in Alma’s teachings to Corianton and also in the inspired teachings of modern apostles and prophets. This chapter will conclude that we can control only one of the three elements necessary to reclaim mankind from the Fall: whether we use the Atonement to repent of our sins and forgive others.
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Subject Keywords

Resurrection
Conversion
Adam (Prophet)
Atonement
Alma the Younger
Fall of Adam
Corianton (Son of Alma the Younger)

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