We are free agents in all these matters. So we may be ordained or set apart to any function, and we may have been ordained or set apart in the pre-mortal spirit world to certain ends in mortality or eternity, but that in no way implies that were somehow required or forced to comply with the functions anticipated of us. God has ordained no man to evil nor has desired that any man commit sin. Yet look at how many evil and sinful men there are. We cannot imagine that they were required by God to be that way.
Moses Your problem seems to be that you somehow equate foreknowledge with predestination. Perhaps your question could be rephrased to ask- Does foreknowledge imply predestination?
Undoubtedly the answer is that it does not; otherwise there would be no free agency. For instance, if I see an animal running in the forest, I know that eventually that animal will stop running, because I know that it cannot run forever.
None at all. The two concepts are not in any way related to one another. He is not endowed with the ability to be aware of anything in the water beneath the surface or in the air above the surface.
He can only perceive things that interact with the surface-and he lives in a boat. There has been a shipwreck and the only survivor is clinging to a piece of wreckage where he is found by the two-dimensional men, who pulls him into the boat. He believes in the spontaneous generation and dissolution of matter. To him, when a ship is launched, it suddenly comes into existence, and when it sinks, it suddenly disappears.
Episode 3. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. Follow Following. The Jerusalem Chamber Join 1, other followers. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. Log in now. And I, the Lord God, spake unto Moses, saying: That Satan, whom thou hast commanded in the name of mine Only Begotten, is the same which was from the beginning, and he came before me, saying—Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely I will do it; wherefore give me thine hono r Moses Because men would be predestined to salvation, without any merit on their part, it would negate the principle of justice and the plan of happiness.
Surprisingly, one third of the hosts of heaven, also desiring to get something for nothing, chose to follow the ways of Satan. They rebelled against God and tried to install their plan for salvation by force.
Their legions were defeated and they were remanded to the custody of Satan forever, giving up the option to progress to mortality, partake of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the hope of eternal life. Foreordination, on the other hand is a fact of life. In the pre-mortal spirit world many, because of their righteousness, were foreordained to positions of honor and authority in mortality and beyond—. Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones; And God saw these souls that they were good, and he stood in the midst of them, and he said: These I will make my rulers; for he stood among those that were spirits, and he saw that they were good; and he said unto me: Abraham, thou art one of them; thou wast chosen before thou wast born Abr Although many of the noble and great ones were foreordained to become rulers in heaven—kings and queens, priests and priestesses unto the most high God—none of those blessings and responsibilities could be realized without the chosen ones obeying in mortality all of the laws of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The key to these blessings, and indeed to the happiness and fulfilment of the whole human family, depends specifically on the principle of the agency of man. Man must choose, of his own volition, to obey the requirements for promised blessings.
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