“As in the past, the choice does not mean that the person is a good Mormon or even a good person. This designation is solely about the impact the person has had.”
Colofornian, please remember that those in the cult put a high value on worthiness.
In this case, Rip is saying this website allows non-worthy mormons to be nominated.
I believe he has a problem with non-worthy mormons being nominated as mormon of the year.
Amazingly, there are no worthy mormons. Zero. Just like there are no worthy anyones. It is Christ. His worthiness alone.
I qualify under that "no worthy anyones" category!
I am unworthy for salvation.
I am unworthy to be in heaven.
I am unworthy to live forever with the Triple-unified God.
Yet...in Christ, my ever-Living Substitute righteousness (1 Cor. 1:30), I qualify!
His justification is imputed to me. I am no more worthily alive of my own "spirituality" than Lazarus was alive in that grave before Christ called him out.
Christ calls.
The Holy Spirit enables me to respond (1 Cor. 12:3). I believe.
I trust Jesus. My Ever-Living Savior. My Reconciler. My Atoning Substitute. I know Him; He knows me.
And the worthiness I now have is 100% IN CHRIST. I was "worthy" at that cross only in that I was "worth" dying for. He found me and every one of enough "worth" to die for 33 years after being born as the everliving God-Man.
My worth is fully displayed on that cross, where he saw Colofornian -- the spiritual prisoner -- and died for me. I caused him to go to that cross. It was me. My sins. My failures. My lack of glorifying God. I'm responsible. I am guilty. Yet, in CHRIST, I am acquitted. Christ took my rap.
I am free! Liberated from any ritual of religion...yet fully bound as one related to Christ. I am an adopted child of God!
No adopted child rings up "brownie points" on some "adoptability" chart. In the most ideal world, children are adopted because of the loving kindness and mercy and relational agape love on the part of their would-be parents.