![]() ![]() Well, he had done something I thought was incredibly vile, and I let him know how terrible it was. I want him to be better than his dad was, even as a boy, and so I lean on him and expect a great deal. Believing Christįirst is a story about my son, Michael, who did something wrong when he was six or seven years old. ![]() I would like to share with you incidents from my own life that illustrate how the Atonement works in a practical, everyday setting. This morning I would like to talk to you about the Atonement of Christ, that glorious plan by which this dichotomy can be resolved. If that were all there were to the equation, the conclusion would be inescapable that we, as sinful beings, cannot be tolerated in the presence of God.īut that is not all there is to the equation. The other side of the dichotomy is very simply put: I sin, and so do you. He can’t tolerate sin in the least degree. The first we can read in Doctrine and Covenants 1:31: “For I the Lord cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance.” That means he can’t stand it, he can’t tolerate it, he can’t blink, or look the other way, or sweep it under the rug. The greatest dichotomy, the greatest problem in the entire universe, consists of two facts. ![]()
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