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@toltec082: The most important concept of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the freedom to choose. This freedom will become ever more important as humanity evolves as freedoms will consistently erode as we proceed in our humanity. There is no other gospel principal greater than to find your own way based upon how important it is for you, as an individual, to discover truth. It’s a very lonely path. The entrance is narrow and the path itself is narrow. However, you have been given the greatest gift of all, the Holy Spirit, to guide you through the incredible opposition that is there to trip you up. It’s not based on feelings alone. All man made religion has the same feeling of a divinity that supersedes physical life. The path forward is based on a balance of Thinking, Feeling, and Willing. Why the balance? Well there are dumbass folks that think drinking coffee is gonna keep them out of heaven while they themselves are overweight and have no will power. There are folks that don’t take the personal time to apply critical thinking, rather parrot what has been heard. There are folks that change feelings based on a single perspective presented, based on emotion stimulated, without considering multiple viewpoints. What God wants from us is to be free beings with the traits of Thinking, Feeling, and Willing, equality developed in fullness, yet in harmony, as God himself is. The “I AM”. The true path for humanity is SO much greater than the distractions that dogma and organized religions of man sadly underperform in understanding. If you need help getting started, I’m here. Just ask. Ultimately, the path is yours and yours alone as the Holy Spirit is constantly by your side. You just have not been taught how to access this gift. You have been taught to be dependent on other men. This is a tragedy as no one knows YOU better than YOU yourself. Your progress is PERSONAL, not organizational based. Eventually, all those who took the individual path of discovery and correction become the Kingdom of God in a physical-spiritual sense as described in the Book of Revelation.
My Response
@toltec082 – I agree freedom of choice is one of God’s greatest gifts. However, there are Gospel Principles greater than freedom of choice and it alone is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And a correction, free agency provides man with the choice to follow God or follow Satan. To choose good or evil. It does not provide him with his own personal choice of gospel standards or commandments. Nor does it give him “options” on his path of salvation that all end up in the same place.
You said: “There is no other gospel principle greater than to find your own way based upon how important it is for you, as an individual, to discover truth.”
You simply being able to choose is awesome. That does not mean you have accepted all God has prepared for you, nor does it mean you chose the correct path. It simply means you had a choice.
Then you tie “The entrance is narrow and the path itself is narrow.” Into freedom of choice. This is what caused me to respond. The narrow gate and path are repentance and baptism, then receive the Holy Ghost. All of this by one who holds the authority of God.
“Wherefore, do the things which I have told you I have seen that your Lord and your Redeemer should do; for, for this cause have they been shown unto me, that ye might know the gate by which ye should enter. For the gate by which ye should enter is repentance and baptism by water; and then cometh a remission of your sins by fire and by the Holy Ghost.
And then are ye in this strait and narrow path which leads to eternal life; yea, ye have entered in by the gate; ye have done according to the commandments of the Father and the Son; and ye have received the Holy Ghost, which witnesses of the Father and the Son, unto the fulfilling of the promise which he hath made, that if ye entered in by the way ye should receive.”
Yes, salvation is personal. The journey is personal. But, that does not mean there is no order and structure. Throughout the ages, God has called prophets and given them authority. Moses could not fulfill his role without God directing him and giving him power to act in God’s name.
God gave the children of Levi power to perform the ordinances of the temple. How would they know how to do these things without instruction? How could they perform the law unless they had authority to do so.
My point is, there are greater gift than freedom of choice. They come from the priesthood of God which was restored to the earth. They come from being baptized by this power. They come from temple ordinances that bind the family of God together.
You say: “The true path for humanity is SO much greater than the distractions that dogma and organized religions of man sadly underperform in understanding.”
So Moses and the children of Israel followed the dogma of men? What else could I suppose from what you said? And the faithful Christians who followed the apostles, who were members of the church, after the death of Jesus? Why should they need to follow an apostle if organized religion is a farce? And if you say, no Moses was a prophet. Then why do you limit God? And if you say, it was fulfilled with Jesus Christ and no other prophet is needed. Then why did he call Simon Peter as a prophet? Why did he build his church upon the Rock, Peter?
My friend, you are seriously misguided. If you suppose you will stand before God and say I did what I wanted and chose the path of my choice because I have free will, you will sorely regret it. God is a God of order. Look at the planets and stars, the plants and creatures on this earth, mankind and the laws of nature. All suggest God has order and adheres to a very strict order.
Likewise you deny the power of God by suggesting he cannot nor does he any longer speak to man through his holy prophets. I don’t mean to be overly harsh with you, but you make a lot of assumptions about following blindly and being led astray which are fundamentally and factually wrong and glaringly show your ignorance, lack of knowledge and understanding, and willingness to reject and fight against God and Christ.