Addicted...(part 2)

Alma 15:17-"began to humble themselves before God, and began to assemble themselves together at their sanctuaries to worship God before the altar, watching and praying continually, that they might be delivered from Satan"

Here is a quick follow up post from the one below.  Here we see those people that believed Alma and Amulek and were thus cast out of Ammonihah.  We see that they took Alma's teachings to heart.  As they humbled themselves, called upon the Lord (at the altar), watched and prayed continually that they were delivered from Satan.  This is in stark contrast with the people of Ammonihah that rejected Alma's teachings.  For they "did not believe in the repentance of their sins" (15:15).  They probably didn't believe in repentance because they didn't believe they had any sins or, if they did, that they didn't have any need to repent of them.  This is because "they were of the profession of Nehor" (15), an anti-Christ that taught "all mankind should be saved at the last day, for the Lord had created all men, and had also redeemed all men; and, in the end, all men should have eternal life" (Alma 1:4).  This sounds like an extreme (emphasis on extreme) version of "saved by grace", "just accept Him" Christianity that we see today.  Still, I remember trying to teach plenty of people on the mission that didn't think they had need for repentance because as soon as they accepted it was impossible for them to sin anymore.  A confusion caused by 1 John 3:9 that says "whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin".  This is another example of the greatness of the Joseph Smith Inspired Version which reads, "whosoever is born of God doth not continue in sin".