The Virtue of Death

Last time, we noticed an interesting feature of Alma’s highly-crafted advice to his sons.  His advice to Corianton the fornicator refers to murder at the beginning and then returns to talking about death as a blessing from the Father towards the end.  In other words, we have good death and bad death.

I don’t usually think of death as a good thing (and still don’t really) but Alma seems to be saying that receiving a mortal body and a mortal death are both necessary preconditions to the resurrection.  I don’t know why he thinks that, more study needed.

Regardless, a sermon contrasting bad death and good death puts me irresistibly in mind of a virtue chart.

The opposing virtue from death would obviously be life, and the synthesis of these two virtues would be resurrection.

MORTAL DEATH –> RESURRECTION <– IMMORTALITY
(I have a beautiful virtue chart all ready to load up but the program crashes every time I do.)