Black Sheep Corianton

What the blast was Corianton thinking?  To go and serve a mission for the Lord and end up taking a tumble in the hay with the HARLOT Isabel!  I mean, it just can't be one decent young lady.  No!  Alma couldn't just come out and call her a "whore".  LOL.  Harlot is a nicer way to put it. 

Alma 39: 4  Yea, she did ^asteal away the hearts of many; but this was no excuse for thee, my son. Thou shouldst have tended to the ministry wherewith thou wast entrusted.

I just couldn't help but giggle at the way Alma was trying to counsel his son firmly yet lovingly. Corianton was still in his youth.  Helaman and Shiblon was faithful and stalwart.  While this young kid was lustful!  Of course he must have been innocent and that "harlot" Isabel must have tempted him beyond all reason.  She's experienced after all because from the above verse, she apparently "steal" away many hearts which to me, in other words, she "screwed" many and the poor kid fell straight into her lustful grasps.  He did not know what hit him and just couldn't resist her tempting ways. 

Alma 39:9  Now my son, I would that ye should repent and forsake your sins, and go no more after the ^alusts of your eyes, but ^bcross yourself in all these things; for except ye do this ye can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God. Oh, remember, and take it upon you, and ^ccross yourself in these things.

This is old news.  Many a male missionaries get send home because instead of focusing on a mission they allow themselves to be distracted by the female species.  Many of them got send home without finishing their missions.  That is one of the saddest things to see.  Alma advised Corianton to "CROSS" himself of all these abominations of the flesh.  Lust and Sexual Sins are an abominations before God and he needed to stop and repent. 
Alma 39:7 And now, my son, I would to God that ye had not been ^aguilty of so great a crime. I would not dwell upon your crimes, to harrow up your soul, if it were not for your good.

What Corianton did was devastating.  Not only did he commit a grievous sexual sin but by doing so, led away many of the Zoramites that Alma and the missionaries were trying to convert to the church.  His choice affected a lot of people. 

I love the fact that Alma was close to his sons.  To serve a mission together with them as they were still in their youths.  It must, of course, tore his heart apart when he found out about his Corianton's fornications and address the matter face to face with his son instead of ignoring them like that priest Eli in the Old Testament  So many characters in the Book of Mormon.  I love reading this magnificent book.