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Posted by: derrida ( )
Date: May 26, 2012 08:30PM

What got me wondering about this question is the following quote:

"To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past--which is to say, only for a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments." --Walter Benjamin http://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/CONCEPT2.html

The Atonement has already happened so the Messiah has done his great task. Christ is called the "Redeemer." ("I know that my Redeemer lives...).

I would say though that the Restored Gospel isn't supposed to fully redeem mankind because Mormons are still involved in redeeming themselves with works and righteousness. This life is a test, a "probation." BUT, and maybe there are people on this board that can speak to this, Mormons make much of their history. It's a sacred history. To me that entails that it is an accurate and fully embraceable, believable, "faith promoting" history. Yet Mormons are constantly fighting to revise or maintain a certain narrative of their history. Like the Chosen People and their God in the Old Testament, the history of the people is supposed to be a sacred one. Under Judaism one does not considered oneself redeemed, right? They are still waiting for a Messiah (not the case though for the Jews For Jesus).

So for Mormons the Messiah has arrived but there is still more the Mormons have to do to be fully redeemed, unless "redemption" is limited to simply being resurrected prior to being at "the bar of judgement" where one is graded to one of the three levels of the afterlife.

Thoughts? Do I have my Mormon doctrine right?

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