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Salvation and the Atonement [message #21] Sat, 12 June 2010 08:28 Go to previous message
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1 How Salvation and the Atonement work
2 I was in a Sunday School class recently, and the teacher indicated he couldn't explain how the atonement really works. This is a matter I have spent some time studying. Here is how I understand it.
3 Jehovah was the chosen Spirit in the pre-mortal existence destined to bring about the reunion of man and God. Only He could endure the trials of Gethsemane and the cross without reaching out with His power and ending it. Lucifer sought a way around that, but his way would not produce the trials necessary for true salvation and none would be in the highest glory of the Celestial Kingdom because they would not have endured enough difficulties with their agency intact. The entire Plan of Salvation centers around how we use our agency.
4 The earth was created by decree of God the Eternal Father (Elohim). He spoke the decree, and it was done. That is, when He spoke, Jehovah obeyed and so did those who were with Him. The noble and great ones were most particularly involved in bringing about God's word to create the earth. Since God spoke and the world was, and Jehovah oversaw the creation of the earth, Jehovah is the Father of the Earth.
5 There was a law set forth before the world was that those who sinned must pay the consequences of their choices. Adam made the choice to separate himself from God that he could use his agency with knowledge. Because he fell, a Savior was needed to bring Adam and all men back into the presence of God. Only a perfect soul could return to God and none could be perfect without paying the eternal consequences of knowing they did wrong.
6 Another law was set in place before the world was that if a man was perfect, in some way, free of a particular sin, that he could take upon him the suffering of another and relieve that person of their burden. There is no such provision in the law of man.
7 D&C 19 teaches us how painful it was for Jesus to take upon Himself the suffering of all mankind everywhere and everywhen. As mighty as He was, He held back for a moment, finding the task difficult. He could have walked away, but since it was His mission on earth to complete that task, that would have been a sin for Him, and everyone would truly have been lost.
8 Glory be to the Father for He finished and drank that bitter cup. Since the cup is now emptied of the wrath of God upon men, all we must do is follow the repentance process and allow Jesus to take away that pain from us, for He has already suffered it.
9 Thus Mercy and Justice are in perfect harmony. The penalty is paid, satisfying Justice, and Jesus provides the Mercy by paying that for us if we do as He asks. Thus we become Children of Christ. Thus, He becomes the Father of Heaven, as everyone there is His child through the atonement. Thus He is the very Eternal Father of Heaven and Earth. Thus we are made whole to be reunited with God the Eternal Father.

- Dragon

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