JUSTICE OR MERCY?

God’s days of judgment and destruction are actually acts of mercy for some. How so?

“Though the judgments of God consist in outpourings of wrath and vengeance upon those immediately subject to them, as they affect the great body of the Lord’s children (both in the pre-existence and those in mortality), they are acts of mercy.

What a curse it would have been, for instance, for righteous pre-existent spirits to have been sent to earth as the children of the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah where every evil abomination was enthroned. What chance would they have had to walk in the paths of uprightness?” (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, page 405)