First, we believe that we are free to choose, and that we will ultimately receive what we choose. That is a core truth of the universe because, as we saw above, that is what Christ’s Atonement guaranteed. If “you are merciful unto your brethren . . . ye shall have mercy restored unto you again.”17 Second, as Latter-day Saints, we know we do not earn heaven; we co-create heaven, and we do so by participating in the celestial relationships that are its essence (and which temple ordinances eternalize). In a very real sense, then, the act of forgiving one another is the healing and constituting of
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