There are 2 Gospels. The “Preparatory Gospel” and the “Everlasting Gospel”. Christ’s gospel was the Preparatory with the promise that if you fulfilled the preparatory gospel God, His Father, would send you the Holy Ghost which would teach you all things and thereby lead you into the fullness of the “Everlasting Gospel”.
The Everlasting Gospel is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. You can do some quick searches on the lds.org/scriptues site for the 2 gospels which will be very enlightening.
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The Law of Carnal Commandments is part of the “Preparatory Gospel”. Thou shalt do X. Commandments given to a people incapable of governing themselves. Remember the “Teach correct principles and let them govern themselves” idea? We are so far removed from that. Because we are steeped in the lower law. Now it’s “Tell them what to do because they can’t govern themselves.”
What age can we date? What age can we dance? How many earrings can a person wear? How many times a day should I pray? Oh, I know, I broke one of the laws, what should I do? How do I repent? etc…
Remember, as you stated in different words, “Love fulfills ALL of the laws and the prophets”. He who has Charity needs no laws because Charity is the Pure Love OF Christ.
The word “OF” can be correctly interpreted to mean all of the following:
- the Pure Love FROM Christ
- the Pure Love FOR Christ
- the Pure Love LIKE Christ
All of the physical carnal laws and commandments are signposts and symbols pointing to Charity. They attempt to force people to mimic love, but do not produce love. In fact contrary to Love, they produce greater SELFISHNESS, and the need for more laws.
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