“May He Grant Unto You Eternal Life”
Eternal life is a gift (see D&C 6:13; D&C 14:7). People do not earn eternal life-there is no scriptural reference whatsoever to anyone earning the right to go where Gods and angels are. Rather, according to the words of the prophets-it is so attested in the scriptures almost a hundred times-people inherit eternal life. After we have done all that we can do, after we have denied ourselves of ungodliness and worldly lusts, then is the grace of God sufficient for us; then we are sanctified in Christ and eventually made perfect in Christ (see 2 Nephi 25:23; Moroni 10:32).
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