Corianton took the teaching “God is love” to mean that God
loves us too much to punish us, and thereby he justified his sins of pride and
fornication. This chapter explains very
well that justice and mercy both seek to claim us, but cannot do so
together. Because of the Fall of Adam,
justice has the say and demands the price of that action. God is just.
God is also merciful. This is
only possible through the atonement of Jesus Christ, who paid the price of
Adam’s action with His own redeeming blood.
The atonement made it possible for God to be merciful to the penitent
while being just to the unpenitent. Or
as Alma explained: “For behold, justice exerciseth all his demands, and also
claimeth all which is his own; and thus, none but the truly penitent are saved”
(v. 24). As Alma said to Corianton, “let the justice of God, and his mercy, and
his long-suffering…bring you down to the dust in humility” (v. 30).
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