“The plan presupposes mistakes. Under the plan, penalties connected with bad choices, our sins, may be cancelled on condition that we keep the commandments which activate the influence of the Atonement.
“We are commanded to do some things, and we are commanded not to do others in order to merit the redeeming power of that sacrifice, the atonement of Christ. The choice is ours. Alma said, ‘God gave unto them commandments, after having made known unto them the plan of redemption’ (Alma 12:32)” (Packer, Things of the Soul, 50).