Accountability
God has given His children the ability and privilege to "act for themselves and not to be acted upon".
What is agency?
This person chose to seek guidance on what church to go to.
Who is Joseph Smith?
Choosing to let God guide you in your day-to-day life.
What is faith?
"What was God's purpose in establishing the United States Constitution? We see it in the doctrine of moral agency. In the first decade of the restored Church, it's members on the western frontier were suffering private and public persecution."
Who is Dallin H. Oaks?
We lived with God before this life, counseling together and choosing to come to earth.
What is premortal life?
"For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one: wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility."
What is 2 Nephi 2:11?
This person chose to come out of the darkness and stop preaching against God after seeing an angel.
Who is Alma the Younger?
Agency gives us the opportunity to overcome our sins.
What is repenting?
"Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do. And you are not without help. Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age."
Who is Russell M. Nelson?
This person was kicked out of heaven due to not wanting agency.
Who is Satan?
"But this much I can tell you, the if ye do not watch yourselves, and your thoughts, and your words, and your deeds, and observe the commandments of God, and continue in the faith of what ye have heard concerning the coming of our Lord, even unto the end of your lives, ye must perish. And now, O man, remember, and perish not."
What is Mosiah 4:30?
This person chose to have faith in God and help them travel to a different land due to their wickedness.
Who is the Brother of Jared?
Agency gives us the opportunity to be cleansed of our sins.
What is baptism?
"I testify that Lucifer was also in the council of heaven. He sought to destroy the agency of man. He rebelled. There was a war in heaven, and a third of the hosts were cast to the earth and denied a body."
Who is Ezra Taft Benson?
This person was deceived by someone and ate some fruit.
Who is Eve?
"Wherefore, because that Satan rebelled against me, and sought to Destry the agency of man, which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also, that I should give unto him mine own power; but the power of mine Only Begotten, I caused that he should be cast down."
What is Moses 4:3?
This person chose to preach wickedness but was later struck dumb and repented at his deathbed.
Who is Sherem?
This was given to us before the world was.
What is agency?
"And it must needs be that the devil would tempt the children of men, or they could not be agents unto themselves; for if they never should have bitter they could not know the sweet."
Who is Joseph Smith?
This percentage chose to follow Gods plan and come down to earth.
What is two-thirds?
"Behold, here is the agency of man, and here is the condemnation man; because that which was from he beginning is plainly manifest unto them, and they receive not the light."
What is Doctrine & Covenants 93:31?
This person chose to give up all of their belongings including funding their farm to help fund the Book of Mormon.
Who is Martin Harris?
Agency gives us the opportunity to accept this person and their gift to us.
What is the Atonement of Jesus Christ?
" His firstborn Son, our Elder Brother, was the key to that plan. Man would have his agency, and with that agency would go accountability. Man would walk the ways of the world and sin and stumble."
Who is Gordon B. Hinkley?
These people would have remained in a state of innocence, unable to progress or have children.
Who is Adam and Eve?