Alma concludes his explanation of justice and mercy by focusing mercy, which appears to have been Corianton’s emphasis. Certainly, all humankind hopes for mercy, but that mercy must come within the context of a plan that uses our agency to transform us. At the final judgment, all of what we have learned and become will stand before God, and in that moment both justice and mercy will be served. Mercy will allow us all the opportunity to be worthy to stand before God. Justice will associate the reward of our next life to the degree that we have learned attributes of Godhood in this life.
These are “His great and eternal purposes, which were prepared from the foundation of the world.”