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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ
B. Any brief foray through the accumulated mass of official LDS study materials and GA talks will reveal that scriptural passages have often been interpreted by different Church authorities in contrasting, and sometimes wholly exclusionary ways. I have no problem with this as I see similar tensions in scripture itself and feel that the burden (more of a joy, really) of truth seeking is on me.
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The one that bugs me on this is
2 Nephi 25:23 For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our
children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be
reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are
saved, after all we can do.
The correct (IMHO) interpretation which I've seen a couple times is that Nephi's "after all we can do" is a grace scripture with emphasis on the word "all" with a sarcastic tone meaning it's all we can do is a pitiful amount.
The most common interpretation is emphasis on the word "after" or emphasis on the word "do" changing it into a works scripture with emphasis on our part of the equation, and implying grace is less abundant and only exists after (chronologically) we do all we can.