Was Alma's son Alma "the transgressor" Mosiah 26:19
Alma the Elder prays to know how to deal with "the transgressor". We already established that Alma the Younger qualified in every way as one of the people who was persecuting the church that Alma the Elder was worried about.
Answer:
Yes, though probably not exclusively.
Probably Alma the Elder was both praying to know how to deal with the uncountable plural "transgressor" idea as well as his own dear son, who he obviously loved, and who was doing some horrible things to try to destroy the church.
The response is a beautiful, almost poetic series of explanations and promises from the voice of Jesus Christ. I paraphrased it here. The act of paraphrasing it really helped me to understand it better. It probably also caused it to lose some of its rich meaning, but oh well. I'm not doing it for 15 million people, or the one or two people who read this blog. I did it for myself.
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