Talk:D&C 59:21-24

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Personal reflections

I find it interesting that the peace in this world won't truly come until *after* we have received the assurance of eternal life. I guess it's hard to have real peace without first knowing who we are, why we're here, and where we're going.

--StevenRJensen 15:10, 27 Apr 2005 (CEST)

Confess before obey

I think the challenge from a theological perspective is to come up with an understanding of agency that allows for both (1) the kind of submission to God being implied here and (2) the kind of initiative suggested in the story of the Brother of Jared being asked by God how to light the vessels and in D&C 58:27. Also, I think there's an inherent fuzziness with the term agency because when we choose evil, the scriptures talk about becoming captive to the devil (does captive imply we lose our agency? similarly, the NT talks about becoming servants/slaves to God, and yet there don't seem to be corresponding verses related to losing our agency when we follow God...).

(I'm tempted to start an agency subpage to keep track of my thoughts on this topic, but I know my tendency to put thoughts on discussion and user-subpages doesn't accomplish the more worthwhile end of adding to the commentary pages—I'll try to be better about that. Sometimes I just don't think what I have to say fits on the commentary pages, though sometimes I'm just too lazy to think where and how to make my comments appropriate for the commentary page....)

--RobertC 19:43, 19 Jun 2006 (UTC)