![]() Â?The creditor was always somewhere in the back of his mind, and he made token payments now and again, thinking somehow that the day of reckoning really would never come. He had what he wanted now, and that was what seemed important. He didnâ?t worry too much about it, for the due date seemed such a long time away. He would pay it off some time along the way. But it seemed so important for him to do what he wanted to and to have what he wanted right now. Â?He had been warned about going into that much debt, and particularly about his creditor. In order for him to have his desire, he incurred a great debt. It seemed more important than anything else in his life. Â?There once was a man who wanted something very much. ![]() Packer of the Council of the Twelve gave the following illustration to show how Christâ?s atonement makes it possible to be saved from sin if we do our part. For your enjoyment I will quote the "offending parable" here, it is as quoted in the Gospel Essentials Manual:Įlder Boyd K. Packer? That parable is inspired of God and is in our manuals, I have not seen any Prophet or Apostle contradict it. McConkie you are now moving on to Elder Boyd K. But I guess since you have throughly "trashed" Elder Bruce R. ConsiglieriYou really do not want to know what I think. If they're his own ideas why are they that way? It seems to make our imprisonment arbitrary since God could have just as easily made the commandments such that we could actually keep them all. Besides the obvious problem there's the issue of whether the commandments God is holding everyone accountable to are his own ideas or if he's basing the commandments on something else. I think it's a bad representation of what the atonement is and how it works. That we have to keep all the commandments of God. ![]() Then Jesus comes and offers to buy our way out of jail. The reason we are in prison in the first place is because we cannot keep all the commandments of God. This parable makes no sense to me as it is usually interpreted. The debtor is God, the Mediator is Jesus, and we are the people in prison. Elder Packer some time ago gave out a parable of his own making in which a person is in prison for not being able to pay his debtor, but a mediator comes to him and offers to buy his way out of jail if only the person will thereafter be obedient to the mediator. ![]()
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