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Journal Entry: Thoughts on Old Testament

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3/4/2018 I know the Old Testament is scripture. It is very important and surely is essential to really understanding God's covenants with his children. But I personally struggle with enjoying/appreciating the Old Testament. I've never really studied it, and I'm sure that is step 1 to working through my dislike. I find many parts of it uncomfortable, un-understandable, and strange. I don't know why people do things and I don't know what is good or bad or right or wrong. I don't know how to read it without cherry picking things that confirm beliefs I already hold strong too. Many parts of it actually seem inconsistent with the gospel to me. I actually feel weirdly like I can't justify spending time studying it instead of other scripture, which seems to be more inspiring and insightful. I hope I can learn to see the Old Testament for the treasure it is. I plan to study it at least once a week and to try to (learn how to) lean on revelation to teach me th
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Should You Take The Atonement For Granted?

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Today in sacrament meeting a youth in the ward gave a short talk about the 3rd article of faith. As part of the talk she said: "so, we should not take the atonement for granted". Immediately I had some unnecessarily contrary thoughts that I found both interesting and amusing. Plus, I knew I could make a blog post about them with a really click-baity title. I think that part of "taking the atonement for granted" would be to assume that even without me trying at all or doing anything heroic, an atonement was made for me to return to a celestial heaven. I can just "take it for granted" that no matter what, there is a path way for me to return home and have peace in both this life and the life to come. It's okay to just assume that even if I cause a bunch of issues in my life, dig myself into a big proverbial hole and even make a whole bunch of other people's lives worse, even in that case, I still will have a lifeline to become clean and pure and
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