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\u00a0 \u00a0 In\u00a0Mosiah 26, as I\u2019ve argued at length elsewhere, we see the rise of a church \u2014 in the sense of a volitional or intentional sub-community within the larger Nephite society \u2014 in the Book of Mormon. \u00a0And it\u2019s clear from Alma\u2019s puzzlement, and the need for special revelation to get him out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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