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Re: Knowledge enough to sin [message #629 is a reply to message #627] Sun, 08 July 2012 12:11 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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I understand what you are saying. Yes, people make choices all the time that are based on what they understand to be the right or wrong choices but most people do not connect with the still small voice that is the voice of Christ to everyone here on earth trying to guide them to do what is right. The concept of guilt has to be taught to be fully understood. The concept of a conscience and identifying with that voice also needs to be taught. If someone were to feel that something they said, did or thought was wrong without understanding that they need to change their thoughts, words or actions or for that matter how they are to make those changes, not to mention why they were to change in the first place, then God will judge them far differently than He would judge one of us who have been given greater light and knowledge from Him. For this reason, those who die without the law will be redeemed and inherit the terrestrial kingdom, not the telestial, unless they were not honorable in how they lived they lives. I understand that we all sin and fall short of the glory of God. We all need Christ to save us from physical death and cover our transgressions and sins through His Atonement. The heathen nations will be redeemed in spite of their traditions of their fathers and customs of their cultures. They will go to spirit prison, not hell where the wicked go, and then they are taught the error of their ways as well as the fullness of the gospel in its purity by the faithful on the other side of the veil. Those that realize the truth and desire to accept it fully will have the opportunity to live unto God in the spirit, but still be judged according to men in the flesh. The blinding by the craftiness of men would include the false traditions of their fathers. This way we reserve all judgment unto the Son of God.
D&C 76:71-75
71 And again, we saw the terrestrial world, and behold and lo, these are they who are of the terrestrial, whose glory differs from that of the church of the Firstborn who have received the fulness of the Father, even as that of the moon differs from the sun in the firmament.
72 Behold, these are they who died without law; (All those who did not have the fullness of the gospel available to them in this life)
73 And also they who are the spirits of men kept in prison, whom the Son visited, and preached the gospel unto them, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh;
74 Who received not the testimony of Jesus in the flesh, but afterwards received it.
75 These are they who are honorable men of the earth, who were blinded by the craftiness of men.

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