What God declares he brings about; his declarations are based on reality, not an imputation (cf. Gen 1: God says “let here be ‘x’” and there was ‘x’”):
And the Lord God said unto me:
THey shall be a scourge unto thy seed, to stir them up in remembrance of me;
and inasmuch as they will not remember me, and hearken unto my words, they
shall scourge them even unto destruction. (2 Nephi 5:25)
Man not able to merit anything of themselves outside the
enablement of God's grace:
And since man had fallen he could
not merit anything of himself, but the sufferings and death of Christ atone for
their sins, through faith and repentance, and so forth; and that he breaketh
the bands of death, that the grave shall have no victory, and that the sting of
death should be swallowed up in the hopes of glory, and Aaron did expound all
these things unto the king. (Alma 22:14)
Jesus being the man cause/instrument of the end-times
resurrection:
And I know that he will raise me
up at the last day, to dwell with him in glory, yea, and I will praise him
forever, and he has brought our fathers out of Egypt, and he has swallowed up
the Egyptians in the Red Sea; and he led them by his power into the promised
land, yea, and he has delivered them out of bondage and captivity from time to
time. (Alma 36:28)
Different “resurrection” for those “in Christ” and those not “in
Christ”?—seeds of later development we see in 1 Cor 15 and the different
“bodies” (cf. interpretation of 1 Cor 15:40ff. in Irenaeus and even Francis
Turretin):
Wherefore, beloved brethren, be
reconciled unto him through the atonement of Christ, his Only Begotten Son, and
ye may obtain a resurrection, according to the power of the resurrection which
is in Christ, and be presented as the first-fruits of Christ unto God, having
faith, and obtained a good hope of glory in him before he manifesteth himself
in the flesh. (Jacob 4:11)
