The Seer, p. 255; “Jesus Christ did not shed His blood to save us in our sins, but to open a way whereby man might obtain forgiveness through Faith, Repentance, and Baptism: and no man can be saved who neglects either of these principles.” – Orson Pratt
Romans 5:8; “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
Every time I see a Mormon doctrine, or teaching, alluding to their belief that Jesus’ blood didn’t do anything but ‘pave the way’, I’m reminded of a song years ago by Twila Paris. The title of her song was quite simple, yet to the point.
Here in 2016, we’re asking the same question…again. What did Jesus die for, if not to save you?
According to Mormonism, Jesus sweated blood at Gethsemane for sins. If this is all that was required to meet the demands of justice, what was the purpose of His death?
If you’re a Mormon, do you consider yourself saved? If so, how do you do that when Jesus’ blood didn’t save you?
Aren’t you still in your sins, right here, right now?
You see, His blood, and His death, were both required for our salvation. Notice in the two requirements, there’s nothing alluding to the works of man.
If you’re Mormon, we’re praying you’ll think about it.
What did He die for?
What did He die for?
When He died for you and me
Made the sacrifice
So that we could all be free
I believe we will answer each to heaven
For the way we spend a priceless liberty
Look inside and ask the question
What did he die for?
When He died for me
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Romans 6:3-6
“3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.”
“It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us. It is not by our sincere and honest change of behavior alone that we are saved, but “by grace that we are saved, after all we can do” (2 Nephi 25:23). True repentance, however, is the condition required so that God’s forgiveness can come into our lives. True repentance makes “a brilliant day [out] of the darkest night” (Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness [1969], 362).(Quotation from “Point of Safe Return” by Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf, April 2007.)
“Our belief is, and we so testify, that Jesus not only conquered death for himself and brought forth his own glorious resurrected body, but that in so doing he also brought about a universal resurrection…Jesus alone could make the required infinite atonement because, being the only sinless person who has ever lived upon the earth, he had a sinless life to offer and because he, being the Son of God, had power over life and death. No one could have taken his life had he not been willing to give it. “No man taketh it from me,” he said, “but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.” (John 10:18.) It was, therefore, through acts of infinite love and mercy that he vicariously paid the debt of the broken law and satisfied the demands of justice.” (Quotation from President Marion G. Romney in “The Resurrection of Jesus,” April 1982.)