Faith versus works is a false dichotomy that apostates long ago created to promote the Satanic ideology of universal s.

[kirtland r.m.]

A sample of what is in link below from conflictofjustice,
"Faith versus works is a false dichotomy that apostates long ago created to promote the Satanic ideology of universal salvation. Apostate Christians of the Dark Ages promoted blind faith so that the masses would be profitable economic producers for them. Salvation was universal for all feudal serfs who plowed their masters’ fields and had holy water poured on their foreheads as babies. Mormons are different. A person must choose baptism and it must be a token of their actual faith. We plow our own fields"(kirtland comment, through the Savior's Atonement).
and, "In much the same way as those feudal Lords, modern-day Socialists promote blind faith and attack meritocracy. Their fanatical focus on equality of outcome looks to a big controlling central power to retain all responsibility and all fitness, and all we have to do is wave our hands in the air and put our trust in them–be dutiful serfs on their fields. Making it to the temple is not easy. You don’t get there because you are rich, a certain race, or privileged. You get there because you worked hard to be a strong and virtuous person".http://www.conflictofjustice.com/mormon ... e-rituals/

[Lord of my dogs]

No one can buy their way into heaven based on works.

But Mark 12:31
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Also Mosiah 3:12
12 But wo, wo unto him who knoweth that he rebelleth against God! For salvation cometh to none such except it be through repentance and faith on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Faith Opens the door. Works show your Love of the Savior.

[kirtland r.m.]

No one can buy their way into heaven based on works.

But Mark 12:31
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Also Mosiah 3:12
12 But wo, wo unto him who knoweth that he rebelleth against God! For salvation cometh to none such except it be through repentance and faith on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Faith Opens the door. Works show your Love of the Savior.

Nice post. A phrase that we are starting to hear in gen. conf., "covenant pathway" is a great way to describe the process that will bring us back into the presence of the Father and the Son. It starts with hearing the word of God, and believing it. I love the description in the scriptures as to what true faith is( a belief in things which are not seen, but which are true). Bottom line, the Church was built and organized to perfect us, so that we might say, 1 John3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

[kirtland r.m.]

A very focused prophetic comment, from the School of the Prophets, Kirtland Ohio.
Lectures on Faith - Sacrifice of all Things Required
Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation; for, from the first existence of man, the faith necessary unto the enjoyment of life and salvation never could be obtained without the sacrifice of all earthly things. It was through this sacrifice, and this only, that God has ordained that men should enjoy eternal life; and it is through the medium of the sacrifice of all earthly things that men do actually know that they are doing the things that are well pleasing in the sight of God. When a man has offered in sacrifice all that he has for the truth's sake, not even withholding his life, and believing before God that he has been called to make this sacrifice because he seeks to do his will, he does know, most assuredly, that God does and will accept his sacrifice and offering, and that he has not, nor will not seek his face in vain. Under these circumstances, then, he can obtain the faith necessary for him to lay hold on eternal life.

(Joseph Smith, Lectures on Faith 6:7)