While I appreciate his well thought-out comments, I suppose my simplistic mind just took it for granted that Nephi was speaking semi-rhetorically. Based on the volume of discussion of Christ's atonement in the Book of Mormon (to say nothing of Benjamin's speech as noted), and the body of commentary by latter-day prophets, it seems foolish to me to read that isolated passage and assume that salvation is works with a little grace sprinkled on top. Likewise it seems presumptuous that we mortals could possibly believe we could derive a formula for salvation from that one verse, assigning grace and works their proper proportions. As Maxwell noted, "We can't do the math because we don't have all the variables."
But if I had a dollar for everytime a born-again got in my face about the word "all" in "all we can do", I'd be a rich man indeed. Damn literalists.
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Last edited by Tex; 01-23-2008 at 04:05 PM.
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