It is divine to give everybody an opportunity to gain reward. God is a just and fair God, and therefore gives every person the opportunity to gain eternal life regardless of that person’s situation on Earth. That is why even those who have died have the gospel preached to them and have an opportunity to […]
God has redeemed all men from the fall in the sense that all will return from death unto life and all men are brought back into the presence of God to be judged for their own works rather than being condemned for Adam’s transgression. But all men cannot receive eternal life unless they choose to […]
Sometimes people flee the wrong direction or to the wrong thing for help or safety. Drugs and alcohol are entrap and enslave. Pornography does likewise. They both reduce access to the Spirit and thus to good decisions and to light and seeing things as they really are. More hours at work can be a welcome […]
Sorrow and love by themselves cannot overcome Justice. They cannot prevent the consequences of laws. Even God’s love, which is mightier than any of our love, could not save us without a payment of Justice. Love must be translated into the necessary action. That is how love saves us: not by allowing or condoning sin, […]
Not because of the atonement but because of Jesus Christ. The word “atonement” describes what Jesus did. Jesus is who went through what we call the atonement. He chose to go through it. He was willing to do it even when he did not want to go through it (if there were any other way). […]
Adam and Eve get blamed for the Fall. If they had not partaken of the forbidden fruit, we would not live in a fallen world where we are susceptible to sin. Of course, we wouldn’t have been born at all. The atonement of Jesus Christ, or we could simply say, Jesus Christ redeems us from […]
We need unity, but not just unity in anything. We need unity in the right things, the things that bring prosperity, happiness, and success. Ben Carson rose out of poverty because he did those things that transform one out of poverty. People are not bound by their circumstances. We can become better and rise above […]
Is learning about the atonement also include learning about how Jesus handled the atonement? He humbly asked his Father if there were some other way besides His having to go through so much pain. Once He knew he had to go through it, He did not fight against it. He meekly allowed it to happen. […]
Entering the land of Canaan and fighting the Giants may have seemed to the Israelites akin to being asked to jump off a cliff. Sacrificing his son Isaac may have seemed to Abraham worse than jumping off a cliff. To Laman and Lemuel, setting sail into the ocean on a ship built by Nephi may […]
External elements act upon a rock. If it rains, the rock sits there. If the driving winds come, the rock sits there. If you pick it up and set it somewhere else, that is where it will remain until forces outside it move it somewhere else. Don’t be a rock. Choose how you will respond […]