FFH
Veteran Member
Scriptures need no interpretation, they are plain enough, especially that one.Katz said:You are misinterpreting the verse, FFH.
You're interpreting scriptures to fit your particular belief, one cannot take place without the other."After all we can do" is better understood as meaning, "apart from all we can do."
If we turn from our sins, and only from those sins we turn from, does Christ's sacrifice take affect. Also, if we believe and have faith in his atoning sacrifice for our sins, then we truly do have a hope for salvation and exaltation, if we meet all the other necessary requirements.I know as well as you do that God expects us to keep the covenats we make with Him, but the bottom line is that we are forgiven through the grace of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Alma 11: 37
And I say unto you again that he cannot save them in their sins; for I cannot deny his word, and he hath said that no unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of heaven; therefore, how can ye be saved, except ye inherit the kingdom of heaven? Therefore, ye cannot be saved in your sins.
Alma 5: 21
I say unto you, ye will know at that day that ye cannot be saved; for there can no man be saved except his garments are washed white; yea, his garments must be purified until they are cleansed from all stain, through the blood of him of whom it has been spoken by our fathers, who should come to redeem his people from their sins.
Alma 7: 14
Now I say unto you that ye must repent, and be born again; for the Spirit saith if ye are not born again ye cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven; therefore come and be baptized unto repentance, that ye may be washed from your sins, that ye may have faith on the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, who is mighty to save and to cleanse from all unrighteousness.
Moroni 10: 26
And wo unto them who shall do these things away and die, for they die in their sins, and they cannot be saved in the kingdom of God; and I speak it according to the words of Christ; and I lie not.