Posted by:
squeebee
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Date: January 09, 2014 05:38PM
So I'm prepping a Sunday School lesson, on the council in heaven as recorded in the BoA, and I come to this realization:
1) The BoA talks about the council in heaven, and some chose to follow Jesus, and some chose to follow Satan.
2) Anyone who has heard anything about the whole Plan of Happiness(tm) knows that a key factor, as seen at
http://mormon.org/faq/purpose-of-life, is to "Exercise agency and learn to choose between good and evil."
The two can't be reconciled. If we came from Earth to exercise agency and *learn to* choose between good and evil, then all the people in the pre-existence made an uninformed decision. Of course, since we didn't have agency I guess God picked a random third of the host of heaven and assigned them to Satan against their will.
I need to figure out an innocent sounding way to introduce this to the class and see which heads explode.