Missionary thoughts

Hey, my name is Elder white, i'm a missionary for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints. I love serving the lord in the New York Rochester Mission! I'm a writer, a martial artist, a physics, chemistry, and computer science major; and I just love to learn new things! These are the questions of mine, and i'm sure many other people' souls.







Wednesday, May 4, 2011

christs atonement

This post will be kind of short, but its about the atonement of Jesus christ. It comes from a little book called the blue hand book. Its a book that talks about different religions and jesus christ himself. In it, it speaks of olives, and how before they are prepared and squeezed into olive oil they are bitter and nasty. But for those who have ever prepared olives, when you squeeze and press them in an oil press the oil that is squeezed out is sweet and delicious. This occurs, scientifically due to the pressures pressing out the sugar, and the sweet out of the oil, while leaving the less dense basic solutions that make the olive bitter inside the olive. Durring the atonement, Jesus christ suffering for our sins in the garden of gethsemany he was pressed both physically and spiritually. In a sense taking that which was bitter and pressing out that which was sweet. Or in other words, taking our bitter suffering that we would have to endure with out the atonement, and returning a sweet reward of joy if it so be that we ask for it. Christs suffering in the garden, which was an olive garden was in the similutde of that olive, being pressed releasing the sweet, and taking the bitter. It was the bitter cup that christ drank out of, that he could give us the sweet, and take upon the law that he may offer mercy to those that desire, and work hard to be worthy of it. He took that which was bitter into himself, and then being pressed in body in spirit released that sweet joy which comes from the shedding of his blood which atones for us all. I testify that this has occured, and that you can come unto god through christ, being rewarded that sweet which christ is willing to give, and has the ability to give through his being suffering in the garden. In the name of jesus christ amen.

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