Agency-Elder L. Tom Perry
"Perhaps
it is because we have a revealed knowledge of our premortal history. We
recognize that when God the Eternal Father presented His plan to us at
the beginning of time, Satan wanted to alter the plan. He said he would
redeem all mankind. Not one soul would be lost, and Satan was confident
he could deliver on his proposal. But there was an unacceptable cost—the
destruction of man’s agency, which was and is a gift given by God (see
Moses 4:1–3 ). About this gift, President Harold B. Lee said, “Next to
life itself, free agency is God’s greatest gift to mankind.” Then it
was no small thing for Satan to disregard man’s agency. In fact, it
became the principal issue over which the War in Heaven was fought.
Victory in the War in Heaven was a victory for man’s agency."
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