The exaltation requirement to 'love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and neighbor as yourself' means no one meets it — creating either despair or self-deception.
Mike focuses on one specific exaltation requirement (the Great Commandment) to show that the Mormon salvific bar is humanly unachievable.
The requirement to fully love God and neighbor is drawn from the Great Commandment. Mike argues no one genuinely meets this standard, so LDS salvation by exaltation leads to one of two outcomes: being 'beat up' (despair over consistent failure) or being 'puffed up' (self-deceived into thinking one is achieving it). The latter echoes Ephesians 2's warning against boasting.
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