Keywords
morality, principle of freedom, Latter-day Saint scripture
Abstract
The author introduces the subject of the essay based on scripture by observing that one true morality governs the heavens and exists to govern mortality, which contains all possible ways to live in time and eternity and orders them into a hierarchy of rational preferability. In order to live their endless lives with enduring purpose and fullness, humankind must undertake two stages of probationary preparation, one as premortals and one that begins with mortality and concludes in the post-mortal world with the final judgment, in which they come to know for themselves the one morality and accept its ordering of the many never-ending ways of life and hence the ways they have proven themselves willing to receive. With that introduction in mind, in the next two sections of the essay the author explores what some latter-day scripture reveals about the moral facts that make possible knowledge of the one morality, about how humankind determines good from bad ways to live as they undertake the second stage of probationary preparation, about how they can come to a knowledge of the best way of life contained in that morality, and how in the end they have a perfect knowledge of it.
Recommended Citation
Sorensen, Alma Don
(2013)
"An Essay on the One True Morality and the Principle of Freedom,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 7, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol7/iss1/4
