choice and accountability #3

Blessings of agency. 2 nephi 2:13 makes some good points. If there were no happiness or righteousness there would be no punishment or misery and if that was the case then there would be no God and without God there would be earth or creation. We need opposition in life. We need the bitter so we can taste the sweet. It is for our learning. As we make choices we see the consequences for good or bad. We can learn to make choices that bring us happiness, that bring us closer to God. If there was no agency, we would not be able to act, to choose right or wrong. A choice would be made for us. That was the plan Satan had in mind. There was only the choice to choose right so that we would return to Heavenly Father, which first sounds good, but that would be a pretty boring life! And there would be no learning or growth and you would feel no emotions cause you wouldn't know what made you happy or sad.

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