After All We Can Do
What is required for Mormons to receive saving grace?
The Book of Mormon makes it clear that Mormons only receive grace after they do all they can do.
In the Book of 2 Nephi 25:23 it says: (emphasis added)
"... it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do."...
Open Minded to me means that you will listen and evaluate objectively. We can try to be as objective as possible or think that we are being objective. But humans are not machines.
We have biases that shape our decision making process.
en . wikipedia . org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
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I was wondering if something was missing because Jesus is always quoting from the OT. And when he tells John he has to be baptized to complete all things I was wondering where in the OT it talks about the Messiah needing to be baptized. Or that anyone needs to or why Jesus was inclined to do it.
Just my opinion but I think it would be egotistical of us to think that we are the sum of all of God's creation. He is infinite so I can only imagine that there is other life out there.
Was baptism common before John? Did he start it or just popularize it? I've always wondered that because I don't remember baptism being talked about in the OT
I can't guarantee I will figure it out, only that I'm open to new ideas.
I just can't accept that they are two separate beings anymore which would be polytheism. (as per 1st vision), Nor do I understand how they are "one God" as per Mormon 7:7.
I can't explain it, not sure if I ever will be...
Please help me out here. I only converted to Christianity a month ago. Before that I was a Mormon. As a Mormon I believed that Jesus was the son of God but not actually God incarnate.
I'm struggling with what I now believe which is that I don't know what to believe.
I see nothing in...
This thread caught my attention because of a quote by Mormon Apostle:
Boyd K. Packer, "The Mantle is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect," Address to the Fifth Annual CES Religious Educators' Symposium, 1981; see also Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1991), 101-122...