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This thought comes from an LDS Freedom forum post. Thought provoking.

Re: Even the very elect will be deceived....

by dauser » Mon Oct 07, 2013 11:36 pm
In the Premortal world a third of our siblings had a problem with forcing people to be good....and they were denied bodies...because they could not handle power and had to be limited.

In this Telestial world many of our siblings have a problem with unrighteous dominion and they are denied priesthood...because they cannot handle power and have to be limited. (D&C 121:37)

Most people cannot handle power...and therefore cannot be given godhood.

If they can legally and anonymously force their neighbors to do things... they will force their neighbors to do things.

They will use government to take advantage of their neighbors and gift themselves education, health care, lunch, money, insurance etc....because they can...and will not control themselves... with other people's property.

If they were made Gods they would immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion on their subjects, because they can...they will not control themselves therefore they cannot be trusted with power...and they must be restrained and limited.

God gives us government to test our judgment...how we use government will determine if we are numbered with the just or the unjust.