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6:46 AM
@GratefulDisciple "What would a theologician say" is hard to answer for someone who isn't a theologician, but I would say a simplified answer to this simplified dictum would be that LDS hold both obedience and love as virtues. The goal is that "do what you will" will eventually be equivalent to "do what God wills", I'd say.
 
6:56 AM
@GratefulDisciple 3) and 4) Elder Dallin H. Oaks: "“A desire to be led by the Lord is a strength, but it needs to be accompanied by an understanding that our Heavenly Father leaves many decisions for our personal choices. Personal decision making is one of the sources of the growth we are meant to experience in mortality.
Persons who try to shift all decision making to the Lord and plead for revelation in every choice will soon find circumstances in which they pray for guidance and don’t receive it. For example, this is likely to occur in those numerous circumstances in which the choices are trivial or either choice is acceptable."
(Do note that we are encouraged to involve God in our decisions, of course, this is just a quote that says that sometimes, we do have to simply make our own decision)
 
7:08 AM
@GratefulDisciple 1) and 2) I have a harder time grasping. If we talk about conscience, then there exists the concept of "The light of Christ" of which is said "Conscience is a manifestation of the Light of Christ, enabling us to judge good from evil." churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/…
But clearly, as discussed before, not everything God wills is codified in written commandments, at least no in enough detail that it would make personal revelation unnecessary. Then we have the curious case of D&C 89, the word of wisdom, where God expressed advice, but explicitely didn't call it commandment at first. Later the church vowed to keep it as commandment, because let's be real - if God says his will, it's a commandment.
@GratefulDisciple The scriptures show God changing, amending, abolishing laws. They show him commanding things that would, under other circumstances, be violation of his commandments. Matthew 12, for example, where Jesus basically says he is the one to decide what is appropriate for the Sabbath, not the scribes. So I would say, or interpret, the relation between God's will, and commandments, is that God's will (if known) is what is commanded, and not the other way around.
 

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