When I was younger, I remember asking my Dad a question. “If Heavenly Father knows everything that is going to happen, does he know whether or not I am going to make it to the Celestial Kingdom?” “Yes, of course he does.” “Then, why doesn’t he just send me wherever now, instead of making me live through it all?” “Well, because it hasn’t happened yet.” Meaning, of course, that God wasn’t going to send me to Heaven or “hell” until I proved my character through my actions. I guess it took a while for the lesson to sink in, but I think the sum of it is this: Foreknowledge cannot rob justice. If God were to assign judgement before the offense, it would be unjust – despite the fact that he knew what was to come. That is the point of agency. Our choices are just as much an evidence to ourselves, as well as to God and the world, that whatever result we attain in the next life, it was dependent on our choices and desires in this one. Shortly after his life-changing expe