The church teaches of Christ and his Atonement. Christ atoned for our sins, however, every Sunday, you go to church to hear about how much you fell short of being able to make his Atonement count for your sins. The whole culture of the church is based on how much faster you are supposed to run.
Is the Atonement for the sinners or only for those that achieve perfection?
On one hand, they say you are not required to run faster than you are able, yet, at one time, I had 4 callings. I was the genealogy specialist, Homemaking leader, and Blazer teacher/leader at the time they called me in to ask me to be the nursery leader as well.
I asked how I could be the nursery leader and the Blazer teacher/leader at the same time since that would mean being in two places at once on Sunday??? They actually tried to convince me I could do it so I said yes and ended up not doing either calling very well which caused me great stress and woes about the eternal consequences of my failure. (I was also pregnant at the time.)
They say that having a family is the most important calling you can have, but they call young mothers to be in the YW organization which takes them away from their families at least one weeknight every week and occasionally other nights. Add girl’s camp for a whole week plus all the extra girl’s camp meetings, YW conferences, Youth Leadership mtgs, Youth Conference, etc.
Then the Relief Society decides to change nights with the other ward so the YW leaders can come to Enrichment mtgs because they are part of RS too and we don’t want to leave them out. That means a YW leader has YW on Tues night and Enrichment on Wed night, then camp mtg on Thurs. …and somehow, she needs to make sure her family knows she is there for them because, after all, her family is the most important calling she has…
When she feels worn out and discouraged because she can’t juggle all this perfectly, if she feels like she is being expected to run faster than she is able??? NO, she should be able to run fast enough, and therefore, she probably is not going to make it into the Celestial Kingdom unless she tries harder!!!
Where is the Atonement in all of this?
Just how perfect does the church say you need to be for the atonement to make up the difference?
Does the Atonement apply to all sin? or just a few sins? Do we only get to pick one sin that can apply so we are responsible to overcome the rest? Maybe 2 sins? 3?
I ask again: Is the Atonement for the sinners or only for those that achieve perfection?
