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Alma and Christ
Please help me understand what appears to be a discrepancy.
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Scripture is written as you know with multiple interpretations for the same phrases if used in different contexts.
I'd suggest without further meaningful study, thus shooting from the hip, that the first means, you should have an eye on the glory of God in all your doings, but you should not be commanded what to do in all things. Simplistic I know but it's the end of the day.
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I would go further and suggest that they are actually mutually reinforcing. WHen we throw off the natural man we submit to the will of God. This doen't mean we become unthinking automotons or that we enter the workhouse of the Lord, but that we voluntarily submit to his approach to life. Alma is urging his son to be submissive in this way, to throw himself at God's feet, as you put it, and make himself available to Him as his servant in humility and in acknopwledgement of God as God. The D&C passage can be used to support a number of ideas, among which is that we should not act out of compulsion, but out of will. So we are told we shouldn't have to be ordered, we should instead be eager and willing to do God's bidding. Acting as God would have us act does not mean that we must wait until we are ordered to do something; assuming the attirbutes of charity and love we can act accordingly without specific direction or compulsion, which is what He would have us do. I see them as going together well.
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Thanks everyone.
I have been going through an intense, emotionally-draining, four-year ordeal that may reach its pinnacle this weekend and finally go away. Thanks for putting up with all of my silly religous questions. I've seriously had to reassess the most basic things. If all goes well, I will explain more next week. |
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