That they may be one, as we are

Christ came to do his Father’s work according to Heavenly Father’s plan from the beginning of the world. “And God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our own likeness.’”(Genesis 1:26)

And God, blessed Adam and Eve… and Adam called his wife’s name Eve because she was the mother of all living.”  And they became like Gods knowing good from evil and Christ was prepared to come forth to redeem man from the fall – from mortality that we might become immortal and live again in heaven where we came from. Without Christ atonement and resurrection we would be stuck here in mortality.  Only through Christ can we have life eternal and fully become Gods.

We have to choose in this life to accept the atonement of Christ or to be cast into that great gulf of misery. It is our choice.

In the great intercessory prayer Christ says, “Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.”

He’s saying that we can become as Christ and Heavenly Father. I think that is much more than being “saved,” it is becoming so immersed in the gospel that we act, think and behave as Christ did – that we come to know the mind of Christ and therefore the mind of our Heavenly Father.  Think for a moment what our life here would be like if we were all Christ like. Nice. Hun? 

Before we get too carried away, however, we must remember that God will force no man to heaven. He gives us our agency, even as he did Lucifer, the Morning Star who fell from heaven. (Isaiah 14:12 and Luke 10:18) 

Our Father in Heaven has given us everything we need to return to him even to the sacrificing of his only begotten Son.  What we do about it is our choice.