“For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.” Leviticus 17:11
General Conference, ‘Why the Covenant Path’, April 2021 “On the covenant path we also find the essential blessings of forgiveness and cleansing from sin. This is help that can come only through divine grace, administered by the Holy Ghost. … There is also a weekly gathering of the covenant people to the house of prayer on the Lord’s day, that we may “more fully keep [ourselves] unspotted from the world.” — D. Todd Christofferson
Jeremiah 31:33-34 “But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
We’ve listed only two of the five definitions for covenants Mr. Christofferson gave in his talk at the recent General Conference. To read his talk in full see link provided above.
The problem with his analysis is when he said cleansing from sin ‘can only come through divine grace, administered by the Holy Ghost’.
The Lord clearly stated in His word that forgiveness of sin comes only through the spilt blood of Jesus. Life is in the blood, and this was demonstrated with the death of His Son on the cross.
Furthermore, we can never do enough, nor can we ever earn righteousness through anything we do – Isaiah 64:6!
A true image of blood covenants is seen when God established a covenant relationship with Abraham you can read about in Genesis 15. See GotQuestions.org for a great article on this!
As you share the truth with a Mormon be sure to point out how God interacts with mankind, and how there are never enough Sacrament Meetings that’d keep us spotless.
With Love in Christ —
Michelle
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