Tag: Summarize Atonement

the Lord himself shall give you a sign—Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and shall bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and to choose the good. 2 Nephi 17:14-15 Christ was to know good and evil from a first…

My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein; … What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have…

When the Lord says that his people, who have laid upon the ground and been treated like the dust of the street shall put on their beautiful garments I have always thought of those saying “lay down that we may go over” as oppressors—which they are—but it occurs to me that the covenant people laying…

And behold, according to the words of the prophet, the Messiah will set himself again the second time to recover them; wherefore, he will manifest himself unto them in power and great glory, unto the destruction of their enemies, when that day cometh when they shall believe in him; and none will he destroy that…

In the fulness of time he cometh to bring salvation unto men. …And the way is prepared from the fall of man, and salvation is free. And men are instructed sufficiently that they know good from evil. … Wherefore, redemption cometh in and through the Holy Messiah; for he is full of grace and truth.…

With a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter to the end of the earth; say ye: The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob. And they thirsted not; he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock also and the waters…

He shall manifest himself unto them in word, and also in power, in very deed, unto the taking away of their stumbling blocks. 1 Nephi 14:1 What we most directly think of as the Atonement—suffering in Gethsemane and Golgotha—constitutes the taking away of the ultimate stumbling blocks.

And he said unto me: Knowest thou the condescension of God? And I said unto him: I know that he loveth his children; 1 Nephi 11:16-17 The first attribute of God is love for His children. That is the thing which animates everything else. He makes and enforces law because of His love for His…

Yea, even six hundred years from the time that my father left Jerusalem, a prophet would the Lord God raise up among the Jews—even a Messiah, or, in other words, a Savior of the world. …Wherefore, all mankind were in a lost and in a fallen state, and ever would be save they should rely…

I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them 1 Nephi 3:7 Preparing a way to keep His commandments is just another reminder of the way He prepared for us to be able to return to our Heavenly Father (despite the fact that…