10/27/2025 .

Introduction

God knows and has reconciled Himself with all existent truth. That is what makes Him holy. God’s values are informed by the sum-total of all existing truth. He understands all meanings, all consequences, all costs and benefits, and all outcomes. He understands goodness, and He embraces it. This is what makes Him holy.

God’s omnipotence and omnipresence are not what make Him holy; those things are the results of his holiness. God is holy because of his knowledge, understanding, and virtue.

Men are unholy because they are ignorant, misinformed, foolish, selfish, carnal, sensual, and devilish. The antidote for these conditions is the teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which imbue the faithful with correct knowledge, understanding, and virtue. The gospel of Jesus Christ is calculated and formatted to produce these results in anyone wise and disciplined enough to apply and live its teachings.

The reality that we do not do these things is the condition that causes sinfulness, misery, and all unnecessary suffering. The gospel of Christ, however, is the bridge, the connection, and the way whereby we may transition from what we are now to becoming, more and more, what God is. This is not blasphemy, this is family. This is what kind and loving parents do for their children.

Jesus declared: “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” [1]

Jesus is the way, the bridge, whereby the Father prepares and enables His children to come home and to receive all that He has. This way is the path to holiness. Without accepting, learning, and applying this holiness in our lives, there is no way back to Him that results in salvation and eternal life.

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God’s Nature and Knowledge

“God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” [2]

“The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth.” [3]

God does not merely know truth—He is Truth—He is the embodiment of Truth.

God’s glory, intelligence, and holiness are inseparable. His understanding comprehends all things: all meanings, all causes, all effects, all moral implications, and all ultimate outcomes. He cannot err because He perceives truth not in fragments, as we do, but in fullness.

Isaiah records: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways.” [4]

One of the most laughable aspects of secular Christianity is the way theologians try to force God into a box in which He will play by their rules, do things their way, and accept their flagrant compromises with sin. They too often promote a Hellenistic, nihilistic, institutionalized, compromising God who often doubles back on His word. They refuse to acknowledge that the word of God is absolute and uncompromising. This is very problematic.

When we fail to comprehend that God’s holiness is the result of his superior knowledge and virtue, we begin to think that our knowledge and false virtue are somehow greater than His.

Too often, we fail to realize that God’s holiness is defined by His perfect union with the total spectrum of truth, wisdom, justice, mercy, and love. All of His divine attributes harmonize because they all spring from this perfect comprehension. We just don’t have that.

The Human Condition

In contrast, humanity suffers because we live in ignorance, partial understanding, and fragmentation. We perceive falsehoods as light and light as darkness. We see through a glass darkly.[5] Because we neither see nor value truth as God does, often believing lies while rejecting truth, our priorities and desires are misaligned, leading to suffering, sin, and destruction.

“There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” [6]

Sin is doing that which you know has less value, less benefit, and a less favorable outcome.

Goodness is doing that which you sincerely believe results in the best value, best benefit, and best outcome.

Sin, therefore, is not merely the violation of arbitrary divine rules; it is the willful rejection of known truth by consciously choosing lesser ways. Misery follows because the lesser way always results in a lesser, more miserable outcome.

As Alma taught: “Wickedness never was happiness.” [7]

And as Christ said plainly: “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” [8]

Freedom, holiness, and joy are fruits of being reconciled with goodness and truth. Ignorance, pride, and rebellion are the chains of sin that keep us estranged from greater joy.

The Gospel: God’s Bridge to Him

God, knowing our fallen state, designed a way to bring His children home—to transition from ignorance to understanding, rebellion to harmony, and from sin to holiness. This is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

“I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” [9]

The Atonement of Christ is not only the means of forgiveness but the mechanism of transformation into a state of holiness. The Atonement is the way whereby we may become “at one” with God. Accordingly, Jesus’ atonement was not merely in the suffering He endured in Gethsemane or on Golgotha, but what He did throughout His life in enabling our perspective “at-onement” with Him.

Through Him, by following His teachings and commandments, we can be reconciled with all truth, just as God is.

“And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ.” [10]

Christ is the living embodiment of truth and holiness. As we follow Him, through faith, repentance, obedience, and continual growth, we are progressively transformed into His likeness and image.

“When he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” [11] …and as we have become.

“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” [12]

This divine injunction is not a call to instant flawlessness, but to continual refinement and improvement. This is the process of sanctification whereby truth is written into our spiritual DNA until it becomes our very nature.

Family, Not Blasphemy

Many ardent Christian religionists have insisted that the idea that we can become like God is blasphemy. They claim that it somehow demeans, desecrates, and lessens the reality of God. But, in fact, the opposite is true. A God that can fully redeem, sanctify, increase, and improve His children such that they can receive all that He has is infinitely greater than the one who can’t or won’t.

To seek to become like God is not blasphemy; it is the objective of earth life. It is a family matter. The plan of salvation is a family plan, designed by a Father who desires His children to grow up in His likeness, with His knowledge, virtue, powers, and abilities; thus becoming like Him.

“The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.” [13]

God does not desire worshippers who remain forever infants in understanding. He desires sons and daughters who grow in wisdom, love, and light, until they share in His holiness.

C.S. Lewis expressed this idea with clarity: “God said that we were to be ‘perfect,’ and He meant it. He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, dazzling, radiant, immortal creatures… if we let Him—for that is what He meant when He said that we are to be perfect.” [14]

The Process of Becoming

This divine process is what the scriptures call sanctification: a continual improvement and refinement of thought, motive, action, and being until we are filled with light and truth, just as God is.

Thus, the gospel is not merely about escaping punishment or damnation; it is about receiving and assimilating truth until the divine nature is fully realized within us. This is the ultimate reconciliation: to become, by grace, through obedience and love, what God already is.

Those who are filled with darkness, who are the children of darkness, cannot understand this. It is terrifying and loathsome to them, because they love darkness rather than light. They do not understand the light because they refuse to approach it. Trusting darkness more than truth, they remain seated in selfishness, ignorance, and fear. Only when a soul dares to rise and take a single step toward the light does understanding begin to dawn, and the things once hidden become clear.

“The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” [15]

“That which is of God is light; and he that receiveth light, and continueth in God, receiveth more light; and that light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect day.” [16]

By receiving the light, and living in light, according to the light, that light incrementally increases, growing “brighter and brighter until the perfect day.” This is what God wants for us.

Conclusion

God’s holiness is the result of His total union with truth, goodness, and love. Our unholiness is the result of our separation and rejection of them. The gospel of Christ is the divine mechanism of unification with Him, with His light and truth. It is the bridge across the abyss of ignorance and sin. It is our divine Parents’ invitation for their children to grow into the likeness and perfections of Them. What righteous parents wouldn’t want that for their children?

“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne.” [17]

To become holy, then, is not presumption; it is to receive the grace of God in gratitude and thanksgiving. It is the wise participation in the divine nature that is offered to us.

It is not rebellion; it is reconciliation. It is not blasphemy; it is what good families do.

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[1] John 14:6

[2] 1 John 1:5

[3] Doctrine and Covenants 93:36

[4] Isaiah 55:8–9

[5] 1 Corinthians 13:12

[6] Proverbs 14:12

[7] Alma 41:10

[8] John 8:32

[9] John 8:12

[10] 2 Corinthians 5:18

[11] 1 John 3:2

[12] Matthew 5:48

[13] Romans 8:16–17

[14] Mere Christianity

[15] John 1:5

[16] Doctrine and Covenants 50:24

[17] Revelation 3:21

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