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Real Judgement

In terms of judgment and the final judgment a better framework is discernment. Judgment is from the Greek word crino. A fuller richer definition would be discernment, differentiation, distinction. So when God first creates the Earth he divides the light and the dark and "judges it as good" that it is good that it is part of divine activity. Discerning between right and wrong is part of our divine mortal activity so we can progress and choose to want to do right. Elder uchtdorf talked about judgement in a very different way where he said the day of judgment will be a day of mercy and healing. In Corinthians Paul says Jesus Will judge us so he need not  condemn us. 1 Cor 11:31 For if we would be more (discerning with ourselves) , we should not be judged.    32 But when we are judged, we are (changed) of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.  Judgment is that process by which we are brought to recognize distinctions and how they have operated in our lives and

Not Wicked BUT Wounded

In the 1830 version of the book of Mormon this reads 'woundedness'.  Plain and precious things that were removed were the true nature of God the Father as a suffering, vulnerable, weeping God. You take those things out and we live a life of fear and perpetual woundedness.  32 Neither will the Lord God suffer that the Gentiles shall forever remain in that awful state of blindness , which thou beholdest they are in, because of the plain and most precious parts of the gospel of the Lamb which have been kept back by that abominable church, whose formation thou hast seen.

why doesn't God make it obvious? Pt. 2

On April 6th 2022, I journaled with the same title. Why doesn't God make it obvious that He lives and He is directing His church. Or at least so obvious that people can't deny it. Then I thought, He DID in the OLD TESTAMENT. With the children of Isreal and their escape from Egypt. Moses even recaps it in Duetermony 4. It's blatantly obvious that there are  huge tactile, visual and nourishing miracles. But people STILL fell away and did the exact opposite. God has done this before has tried this before people have their agency no matter what miracle God performs.