Alma 19

First King Lamoni, then his wife, then Ammon and then the servants all fall into a type of trance where they are carried away in the spirit. King Lamoni describes what happened when they were in the trance saying he beheld the Savior and saw visions of his birth and redemption. This type of experience is described in a number of places in the Old and New Testaments. Paul describes being in carried away to the seventh heaven. Samuel and Saul and other Old Testament prophets had similar experiences. What is interesting to me is that there are some of the people who believe King Lamoni and Ammon and others who do not and walk away. The essence of the this chapter to me is how important it is to have a believing heart and not let the mind completely rule our thoughts and conclusions. Human logic and spiritual experience do not coincide in mortality. There is no human logic to a spiritual experience because it cannot be completely explained. Only when you have a similar experience does it make sense. When a person has a spiritual experience, it then makes sense and falls into such logic as to be undeniable both mentally and spiritually. This will be true for everyone of regarding all knowledge and experience after this life when we will see and know all things as they really are. In the meantime, it is important that we have believing hearts regarding spiritual things. Those things we don't understand, we need to have faith about, just like Lamoni's wife who didn't understand all that was happening, but still had a believing heart and faith to believe Ammon's words. Her faith was so strong it led Ammon to explain he had never seen such faith among the Nephites who had the gospel, prophets, and scriptures.