Oh boy, where to start. Maybe just rewording this passage.
And now, you're here on Earth where you will learn from experience to distinguish between the bitter and the sweet as you learn to prize the sweet. If you choose to live by those principles and keep up this process of learning you will fulfill your divine destiny. That is the purpose of your mortality. I have given you the gift of my Son to help you along your way to eternal life which is the abundant life, the path to happiness, now and forever.
God cannot gift us eternal life. It is not a reward for good behavior. Eternal life consists of being a certain kind of loving being and associating with others in loving relationships. That is not a gift you can be given.
What he gave us - what they gave us - is the wonderful plan of happiness which we accepted. That is the gift. It is the gospel. It is an amazing gift - an open door to eternal progression. They loved us so much they wanted us to have everything they have. That love is another of their gifts.
The principles Jesus taught are each gifts to guide us to find happiness. He is the gift.
Agency is a gift - for good or ill but they trusted us to learn through the exercise of our agency. their plan was from the beginning educative and redemptive.
Educative because personal lasting growth toward godhood only comes from partaking of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Redemptive because our choices and the choices of others will leave us wounded. We will need healing. Love and trust surround us. We are Their children.
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