Eve Found the Apple to be Delicious

Alma 32:28 [Book of Mormon]
“Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, year, it beginneth to be delicious to me.”
I’ve been reading through my margin notes on the book of Alma, more chloroform in print as Mark Twain called this hideous book. In any case there is a lot of nonsense in it, the book keeps repeating the same nonsense. I am beginning to wonder why Mormons have big houses and tend to wear expensive clothes given the unqualified ranting against wealth in the book of Alma.
But then there is the above nonsense. And that is what it is non sense, that is this stuff does not even attempt to make sense. It is an appeal to emotion, that is all. The Bible actually has to be abused to see any emotional appeals in it. Not that emotions didn’t at times accompany the truth of the Bible. But the Truth of the Bible is never offered on the basis of “does it make you feel good.” Tell you the truth mormons are not the only ones who do that. Different Christian sects do it. And just about every religion in the world offers you emotional nirvana as a testament to its truth. Big whoop. Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, all rely on this same appeal to emotion, even atheism half the time. I don’t much care if it does make you feel good. Drinking a bottle of Jack Daniels, snorting a line of cocain, shooting a vein of heroin all feel good to the people who do them, doesn’t seem to me though that thereby these things prove themselves to be good. Adulterers normally feel that what they are doing is good, others might legitimately disagree.
There is a rational aspect to the Christian faith. Sure there are things that can’t be proven by reason, but they are not thereby irrational. There Is plenty that makes the Christian faith quite rational in fact Christianity promotes rationality to a degree not seen in any other religion. Eve found the apple to be delicious.