BOM Alma 19

Today’s reading, Alma 19, continues with the dramatic story of Ammon’s missionary labors at a Lamanite royal court.

I’m in rather a hurry at the moment, and will be until later tonight.  So I’m just going to highlight one little phrase that catches my attention:

King Lamoni goes into a kind of coma or trance for about two days, and those who aren’t worried are plotting.  But Ammon “knew that king Lamoni was under the power of God; he knew that the dark veil of unbelief was being cast away from his mind.”

It reminds me of the process by which a computer’s hard disk is cleansed.

The accumulated darkness of the false traditions in which Lamoni had been raised and thoroughly enculturated had to be removed, and new ideas substituted in their place.

I think of Romans 12:2:  “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”