Posted by:
grassboy
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Date: December 02, 2010 09:23PM
Question about the Atonement. Mormons always talk about the atonement and how powerful it is. Yesterday I sat in an institute class and a TBM was talking about how he was taken advantage of by a former employer and it filled him with extremely angry feelings. He then related how he employed the atonement, praying everyday, and trying to forgive. After a couple of months he was able to get over, thanks to the power of the atonement...
So what is this power? I mean COME ON! Take another guy who has no religion and who doesn't want to feel pissy all the time and I'm sure he'd get over the same thing in the same time. So what's with all this power stuff. Some of you reformed Christian exmos can help me out, since you still believe in this stuff. Basically it comes to this. Take any person with positive thinking, who has a healthy mentality. Put this person through any kind of a trial and say they overcome it. What was that? How'd they do it? Seems like Christians just accredit success to the atonement. Is there actually some power that I'm missing here?