In order to no “longer deny the Christ,” Moroni writes, we must learn how to “behold the Lamb of God” (Mormon 9:3). We must stop covering our eyes and hiding our heads in the sand, repeating the mantra that “all is well in Zion” (2 Nephi 28:21). We must stop pretending that there is any other way to pass through the crucible of this world’s continual re/creation than by following the sacrificial example of “the Lamb.”