This is a review of the slides we used while discussing ' ' ' An Infinite and Eternal Atonement 2 Ne

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This is a review of the slides we used while
discussing . . . An Infinite and Eternal
Atonement 2 Nephi 2-3, 9 Alma 34, 40-42
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The Atonement is the most significant thing
that a person ought to know something about. I
think some if it can only be understood by
experience. Therefore, I expect that our
knowledge and appreciation of the atonement will
continue to expand until we become exalted in the
celestial kingdom. It follows, therefore, that
they who do not reach the celestial kingdom may
never really understand what the Lord did for
them. (Robert J. Matthews, Talk given to
seminary institute teachers, Nov. 28, 1984)
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The desired outcome is to increase our Faith
unto Repentance through the Great Mediator
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Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Come, thou Fount of every blessing Tune my
heart to sing thy grace Streams of mercy, never
ceasing, Call for songs of loudest praise. Teach
me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming
tongues above Praise the mount Im fixed upon
it Mount of thy redeeming grace.
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Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Here I raise my Ebenezer, Hither by thy help
Im come And I hope by thy good pleasure,
safely to arrive at home. Prone to wander Lord,
I feel it. Prone to leave the God I love Heres
my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for the
thy courts above.
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Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering form
the fold of God He, to rescue me from danger,
interposed his precious blood. Prone to wander
Lord, I feel it. Prone to leave the God I
love Heres my heart, O take and seal it, seal
it for the thy courts above.
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Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
O to grace, how great a debtor, Daily Im
constrained to be! Let thy goodness, like thy
fetter, bind my wandering heart to Thee. Prone
to wander Lord, I feel it. Prone to leave the
God I love Heres my heart, O take and seal it,
seal it for the thy courts above.
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Key Doctrines of the Atonement - 2 Nephi 2 9

• 1) The Plan 3 Pillars of Eternity
• 2) Laws - ends of the law
• 3) Happiness - The design of our existence
• 4) Agency - Act and not be acted upon

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The Creation, Fall, and Atonement
Atonement Resurrection Knowledge
Brought back into Presence of God Eternal
Increase
Creation of Adam Deathless -
Innocent In Presence of God
- No Children
Fall - Mortal (Physical Death)
Knowledge - Cast out of Presence (Spiritual
Death) Children
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Gods Work Glory
Immortality
Eternal Life
Joy
Agency
Body
Spirit
Atonement Physical Death
Spiritual Death
Make Miserable
Destroy Agency
Satans Work Glory
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• We came to this earth that we might have a
  body and present is pure before God in the
  celestial kingdom. The great principle of
  happiness consists in having a body. The devil
  has no body, and therein is his punishment (The
  Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 181).

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Alma 42 Punishment God does not want you to
suffer the penalty of sin!

• v. 4) ample time to repent.
• v. 7) we are free to choose.
• v. 12) punishment caused by own disobedience.
• v. 15) God would of taken the punishment for us!

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The Endsof the Law
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LAWSunto every kingdom is given a law and
unto every law there are certain bounds also and
conditions DC 8836-38
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We are only capable of comprehending that
certain things exist, which we may acquire by
certain fixed principles. If men would acquire
salvation, they have got to be subject, before
they leave this world, to certain rules and
principles, which were fixed by an unalterable
decree before the world was. (Teachings of the
Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Six 184344, p.324)
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• A law is an invariably consistent rule,
  independent and irrevocable in its existence.
• Consequences always follow the observance of, the
  breaking of, even the ignoring of a law.
• Laws govern the physical universe with such
  constancy and precision that once man has
  discovered them, he can demonstrate their
  existence, generally by their effect, with
  unfailing accuracy. Laws do not change. A law,
  like truth, abideth and hath no end. (DC
  8866). (Boyd K. Packer, The Law and The Light,
  Book of Mormon Symposium, BYU, 30 October 1988.)

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The Ends of the Law Temporal Spiritual
Agency
Obey
Disobey
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The Ends of the Law Temporal Spiritual
Agency
Disobey Punishment Misery Acted Upon
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The Ends of the Law Temporal Spiritual
Agency
Obey Blessing Happiness Act, not acted
upon
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The Ends of the Law Temporal Spiritual
Agency
Obey Blessing Happiness Act, not acted
upon
Disobey Punishment Misery Acted Upon
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There is a Redeemer, a Mediator, who stands
both willing and able to appease the demands of
justice and extend mercy to those who are
penitent, for He offereth himself a sacrifice
for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all
those who have a broken heart and a contrite
spirit and unto none else can the ends of the
law be answered 2 Nephi 27 (Boyd K. Packer,
The Mediator, Ensign, May 1977, 54).
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Happiness
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Happiness is the object and design of our
existence and will be the end thereof, if we
pursue the path that leads to it and this path
is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness,
and keeping all the commandments of God. But we
cannot keep all the commandments without first
knowing them, and we cannot expect to know all,
or more than we now know unless we comply with or
keep those we have already. (Teachings of the
Prophet Joseph Smith, 256-257)
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Happiness

• Purpose of Life is for happiness
• Happiness comes from righteousness
• Righteousness comes from obedience
• Obedience is valueless without agency and
  opposition
• Fall brought opposition
• Men are free to choose
• Atonement overcomes the fall

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Act and not be Acted Upon
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Here, then, is eternal life--to know the only
wise and true God and you have got to learn how
to be Gods yourselves, and to be kings and
priests to God, the same as all Gods have done
before you, namely, by going from one small
degree to another, and from a small capacity to a
great one from grace to grace, from exaltation
to exaltation. (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph
Smith, 346-347)
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Act

• God acts and is not acted upon
• God wants me to be like him
• To be a god, we must act and not be acted
  upon
• This requires law, agency, and opposition
• Fall brought opposition
• Men are free to choose
• Atonement overcomes the fall

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The End . . .