After the burned out bodies of those who were brutally murdered had been totally consumed (do bones burn?) along with the scriptures, the chief judge stands before the bound Alma and Amulek, strikes them on their cheeks and says, "After what you've just seen, will you dare to tell me and my people that we will be cast into a lake of fire and brimstone? You didn't have the power to save these people. Well? What do you have to say?"
Alma and Amulek were hit over and over again, and then sent to prison.
Joseph Smith, his brother Hyrum Smith, Lyman Wight (my 5th great uncle), Alexander McRae, Caleb Baldwin, and Sidney Rigdon were unjustly imprisoned in Liberty Jail.
I have been there.
After a lot of reading, I was able to learn some of the more disgusting details of this ordeal. When they were in this jail, they were not able to stand up completely. They were fed the flesh of murdered latter-day saints. They endured violent, foul, filthy language and taunting about their wives and families. They were told that they didn't have the power of God to save themselves.
Answer:
I am certain that Alma and Amulek's experience in the Book of Mormon would have been a great strength to Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail.
People can be surprisingly evil.
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