"Choice" by Pam Bowman

"I endeavor to emulate Eve. Central to the Plan of Salvation is the gift of agency. “The plan is not based on chance, nor on accident. It is based on purpose, on agency, on choice.”[1] At every crucial juncture agency has played a key role – at the pre-mortal council, Eve’s choice in Eden, and Christ’s choice to fulfill his role in the atonement. Opposition, in conjunction with agency, is also an essential principle. “Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should act for himself. Wherefore, man could not act for himself save it should be that he was enticed by the one or the other.”[2] Eve needed opposition to be an agent, and she wisely and bravely partook of the fruit. Then her eyes were opened so she could become “as gods, knowing good and evil.”[3] Like Eve, we can know good from evil through our mortal experience. “It is our choice of good over evil which makes us godlike.”[4] We can choose between lightness and darkness, virtue and vice, happiness and misery[5], liberty and captivity, and eternal life or death.[6] I strive to choose light. [1] Elder Boyd K. Packer Things of the Soul p. 50 [2] 2 Nephi 2:16 [3] Genesis 3:5 [4] Beverly Campbell Eve and the choice made in Eden p.40 [5] 2 Nephi 2:11 [6] 2 Nephi 2:27" $14,900.00