We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; in deed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul ... if there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Afflictions are for our gain



“And he shall consecrate thine afflictions for thy gain… For it must needs be that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, righteousness could not be brought to pass neither wickedness, neither holiness, nor misery, neither good nor bad…. Even the forbidden fruit in opposition to the tree of life; the one being sweet and the other bitter. Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should act for himself… Adam fell that man might be; and men are that they might have joy… Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death according to the captivity and power of the devil; for he seeketh that all men might be miserable like unto himself.” (1 Nephi 2: 2,11,15, 16, 25, 27)

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