Two quick points about Alma 33:
1.
In this chapter, Alma cites not only Moses but Zenos (well known to readers of the Book of Mormon for Jacob 5) and Zenock as support for the doctrine that God has a son.
I have no solid proof for this, but it simply strikes me as straining credulity that Joseph Smith (or the anonymous modern writers’ collective that supposedly wrote the Book of Mormon, according to some critics, if Joseph didn’t) would have bothered to invent a pair of fictional prophets in order to mount an otherwise serious (and suitably ancient-sounding) argument such as this. Intuitively, it just seems wrong. This sounds like a real argument, appealing to the authority of people believed to be genuine.
2.
I really like Alma’s argument (in 33:19-22) that it’s foolish to pass an offer of salvation by when accepting it would be so very easy. There will come a time, I’m confident, when those who reject the Savior and his Gospel will see clearly how silly they’ve been. I hope, genuinely and sincerely, that there will still be a chance for them.
Posted from Lindisfarne, Northumbria, England
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