What if we’re being tested, to see what it might take to convince us to willfully choose evil? To see what price we might sell our conscience for? (Matthew 4:1-10)
What if we’re being tested, to see if we might choose evil under enough peer pressure? (1 Nephi 8:26-28) What if other people and their choices are not a sound foundation upon which to make our own choices? (Revelation 17:1-2, 15)
What if we’re being tested, to see how susceptible we are to accepting man’s reasoning over God’s? (Isaiah 55:9)
What if we’re being tested, to see whether we will let fear convince us to ally ourselves with one evil against another? (Isaiah 30:1-5)
What if we’re being tested, to see how far we will allow our rationalizations to take us into the darkness? (2 Nephi 28:8) What if the Lord doesn’t accept rationalizations for willfully choosing evil? (1 Samuel 15:22-23)
What if we’re being tested, to see if we will still choose good, even when the rest of the world argues we must choose only of evil? What if the tests aren’t at all about how the world responds to our choices, but are entirely about how we choose to respond to the world? (Abraham 3:24-25)
What if we’re being tested, to see if enough people can be convinced to willfully choose evil, that we might thereby justly warrant destruction? (2 Nephi 28:16)
I hope not to test poorly, if such tests are occurring…even in an election cycle…
