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Dear
Gramps, |
Dear
ac,
There
is NO sin for which the sacrifice of Christ did not atone. He paid the price
through his unspeakable suffering for every sin that was or ever will be
committed by every living being. There are no exceptions! His sacrifice was
infinite in its scope. Being infinite, it was without bounds, without limits.
The infinite nature of the great atoning sacrifice of the redeemer of mankind
is revealed by Alma in the Book of Mormon:
For
it is expedient that an atonement should be made; for according to the great
plan of the Eternal God there must be an atonement made, or else all mankind
must unavoidably perish; yea, all are hardened; yea, all are fallen and are
lost, and must perish except it be through the atonement which it is expedient
should be made. For it is expedient that there should be a great and last
sacrifice; yea, not a sacrifice of man, neither of beast, neither of any
manner of fowl; for it shall not be a human sacrifice; but it must be an
infinite and eternal sacrifice
(Alma 34:9-10.)
And
behold, this is the whole meaning of the law, every whit pointing to that
great and last sacrifice; and that great and last sacrifice will be the Son of
God, yea, infinite and eternal
(Alma 34:14)
It
is amazing how lying, false priests have distorted the truths of the gospel of
Jesus Christ as it was revealed by the prophet, Joseph Smith. The great
sacrifice of the Savior was the blood sacrifice. The blood of Jesus Christ
his Son cleanseth us from all sin (1 John 1:7.) His suffering was so
intense that it caused him to bleed at every pore
For
behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer
if they would repent; But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I;
Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble
because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and
spirit--
(D&C 19:16-18.)
Evil
and conspiring men in the early days of the Church distorted this pure
doctrine, and with blasphemy accused the Lord’s Church of requiring the
blood of the sinner to pay for his own sins. This blasphemous concept negates
the infinite nature of the great sacrifice of the Savior, and is patently
false, and never was nor could have been entertained by the Church that bears
His name. Elder Bruce R. McConkie had the following to say on the subject:
“From
the days of Joseph Smith to the present, wicked and evilly-disposed persons have
fabricated false and slanderous stories to the effect that the Church, in the
early days of this dispensation, engaged in a practice of blood atonement where
under the blood of apostates and others was shed by the Church as an atonement
for their sins. These claims are false and were known by their originators to be
false. There is not one historical instance of so-called blood atonement in this
dispensation, nor has there been one event or occurrence whatever, of any
nature, from which the slightest inference arises that any such practice either
existed or was taught” Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p.92
Gramps