Scripture is emphatic that Christ’s atoning sacrifice is efficacious by virtue of this draw, the pull, the attractive power it exerts upon our hearts. If “every knee shall bow to” Christ and “every tongue” confess him,32LDS scripture suggests it will be a joyful, grateful, voluntary bow, in consequence of the vulnerability of the Savior, a God given to weeping over and in solidarity with the misery of his children, and not in consequence of his active demand. His power is a noncoercive power: “He layeth down his own life that he may draw all men unto him. Wherefore, he commandeth none that
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