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Originally Posted by ERCougar
This is a very common misinterpretation of Ether 12:27 that drives me crazy. Nowhere does Moroni say that weaknesses will be eliminated, nor that they will become strengths. He says that they will become "strong unto them". In my view, it is weaknesses that drive us to seek God's power and help in our lives. The alcoholic may never overcome that craving, but hopefully the craving drives him to a higher power, giving him strength he would never have had otherwise.
Thus, the two scriptures are completely compatible.
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OK, I'll have to think about that. So you're preserving the strength = God, weak = man definitions in the Ether? I hadn't thought of that.