Join hosts Jason Lloyd and Nate Pyfer in this week’s Weekly Deep Dive Podcast as they explore the intriguing concept of judging righteously by examining the fallout from the story of Ammon from the Book of Mormon. Discover how ancient scriptures can offer insight into modern dilemmas, and hear their spirited discussion about faith, perspective, and the importance of following the Spirit. Whether you’re familiar with the story of Ammon or hearing it for the first time, this episode promises to provide unique perspectives and thought-provoking insights. Tune in for an engaging and enlightening conversation!
Transcript:
[00:00:16] Speaker A: Welcome to the weekly Deep Dive podcast on the add on Education network. The podcast where we take a look at the weekly come follow me discussion and try to add a little insight and unique perspective. I am your host, Jason Lloyd, here with our friend and this show’s producer, Nate Piper.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: What’s up?
What is up?
What is up, Jason?
[00:00:36] Speaker A: Always good things.
[00:00:37] Speaker B: That’s exactly right, dude. Only good things are up.
[00:00:42] Speaker A: Another week, another opportunity to kind of dive in and talk about the scriptures and just kind of follow up with Ammon.
[00:00:49] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:00:49] Speaker A: This dad. Yep. He’s the best.
[00:00:51] Speaker B: He’s great.
[00:00:52] Speaker A: You know, I think we even talked about this last week. Correct me if I didn’t, but since last week, not relating at all to our podcast or any questions about the podcast.
[00:01:02] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: Just other people have asked me.
It’s come up probably three or four times. Did Alma. Alma, did Ammon really cut arms off of people, or was he just disarming them? Did we talk about that? We talked about that, didn’t we?
[00:01:17] Speaker B: No, we didn’t.
Oh, we talked about him chopping arms off, right? Yeah.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: And I tried. I tried so hard to get an image created of ammon, like, swinging some dude’s arm, beating him with his own.
[00:01:37] Speaker B: Arm, because that would have been better. That would have been better episode art, for sure.
[00:01:42] Speaker A: And apparently that violates the terms and conditions of chat. GPT.
[00:01:46] Speaker B: Oh, booze and come on, chat. Stop ruining our fun.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: I mean, they gave us the gen z book of Mormon, but they couldn’t give us ammon beating people with their own arms.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: That is. Both of those things are true.
[00:01:59] Speaker A: And so I asked. I asked it to give us what it could provide for me. The best that you could and the best that you could. I was about to throw in the garbage because I saw sheep flying in the air, and Ammon looked like he was ripped off the COVID of some romance novel. And I’m like, what is going on?
But you know what? The sheep flying in the air. And that part was the COVID Yeah. I couldn’t pass on it. In the end, I had to settle on it. So if you haven’t taken a look at the artwork for this last week’s episode. Yeah, it flies.
[00:02:33] Speaker B: Worth it. I mean, it’s for sure worth it. That’s what I meant to say. It’s for sure worth it.
[00:02:40] Speaker A: I mean, I think it’s amazing, going back to the question, and it has popped up, I think, three times, four times I’ve been asked this, this week. I guess some people have been teaching or thinking that when it says cutting off their arms, it really means disarming them or knocking the weapons out of their hand. And I was asked, what, what are my thoughts on that? And my thoughts are, I just don’t see where the text bears that out. I don’t know how bringing a handful of clubs is going to be impressive to the king. Like, anybody could go grab a handful of clubs.
