Obedience and Agency

As mortals we have our agency.  This is a God given right to choose our own path.  While we are on earth, we have full freedom to choose good or evil--God does not control our choices.  Opposition of good and evil exists in this life, the one in contrast to the other.  While we are mortal, we are being tested to determine whether we will choose good or evil. With each choice we are able to observe the consequences of our choice and we can also witness the actions of others around us, even as viewed throughout history, and we can see the consequences of the actions of a lot of different people. We are meant to learn from this experience and to become wise enough to learn to choose the good over the evil by our own will.

God has also given us commandments to help us understand what we should do while we are here.  He has sent prophets and has had them record His revelations to them. He has explained the laws that should govern us here. He has promised that blessings will follow obedience to His laws, while sorrow, and captivity to evil and to man's physical carnal nature will result if we indulge in sin.

We have complete freedom over our actions and reactions while we are in this life, but we do not have control over other's choices.  We do not have control over the governing principles of this life, such as physical laws, or natural consequences, nor are we at liberty to redefine good and evil. or to alter God's purpose for our being here.

When we die, we are finished with this mortal life, but our eternal life continues.  We will be assigned to positions of responsibility and allotted an increase in intelligence, power, and influence after death based on how well we have demonstrated a wise use of our agency here, or in other words if we have learned to be submissive to God's laws and have freely chosen to be governed by them, we are given unlimited resources after this life and eternal unlimited potential to continue to learn and grow and exercise agency.  If we have failed to comply with heavenly law here on earth, we are given a limited range of agency in our next life, and a limited potential to learn and grow.  Our agency will be measured out in the next life according to the ability we have demonstrated here to wisely manage our power of choice.