You're not going to be here. It is surprising that an idea can at once be so popular attracting people to give it passionate devotion and at the same time be completely

false.

Why are people so often crazy enough to jump on a trend that is destructive or just plain foolish against their own best interests.

Again and again, the Book of Mormon presents us smooth-talking, powerful intellectuals whose words corrupt the nation.

There's Sherram, who had a perfect knowledge of the language of the people and could

flatter them to turn from their faith. There is Alma, before he repented, who represented

the rebellion of youth against the teachings of their parents. There is Nihor, who taught them

that all could be saved without a savior.

There is Amlesai who wanted power and lied to attain it.

There is Gadiantin, whose criminal ambitions were masked by intellectual respectability.

And then there's Corohor, who we will talk about today.

Every one of them grabbed power and the hearts of many people, reminding us there's nothing more dangerous than a lie preached with

power. Welcome friends we are Scott and Maureen Proctor and this is Meridian

magazine's Come Follow Me Podcast, where this week we are studying

Alma Chapter 30 and 31 titled The Virtue of the word of God.

We love to study with you and remind you that you can find the transcripts of these

podcasts at latter-day saint mag.com forward slash podcast. As Alma, Chapter 30 opens, the Lamanites have been driven out of the land of the Nephites at a very great cost.

So great was the cost that the dead were not numbered on either side, and after days of fasting,

mourning and prayer, they turned to a time of peace.

The remarkable Limonaut converts were settled in the land of Jershaun and peace began to prevail.

But then in the very next year a man named Corohor came into the land of Zarahemla who was an Antichrist. The story that follows

reminds us that persuasive ideologies are often more destructive than war, in fact are often

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