diff --git a/terraform/eval_validate.go b/terraform/eval_validate.go
index 182f4d1f9..a84aa3ac9 100644
--- a/terraform/eval_validate.go
+++ b/terraform/eval_validate.go
@@ -252,10 +252,6 @@ type EvalValidateResource struct {
 	Config         *configs.Resource
 	ProviderMetas  map[addrs.Provider]*configs.ProviderMeta
 
-	// IgnoreWarnings means that warnings will not be passed through. This allows
-	// "just-in-time" passes of validation to continue execution through warnings.
-	IgnoreWarnings bool
-
 	// ConfigVal, if non-nil, will be updated with the value resulting from
 	// evaluating the given configuration body. Since validation is performed
 	// very early, this value is likely to contain lots of unknown values,
@@ -264,12 +260,14 @@ type EvalValidateResource struct {
 	ConfigVal *cty.Value
 }
 
-func (n *EvalValidateResource) Validate(ctx EvalContext) error {
-	if n.ProviderSchema == nil || *n.ProviderSchema == nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("EvalValidateResource has nil schema for %s", n.Addr)
+func (n *EvalValidateResource) Validate(ctx EvalContext) tfdiags.Diagnostics {
+	var diags tfdiags.Diagnostics
+
+	if *n.ProviderSchema == nil {
+		diags = diags.Append(fmt.Errorf("EvalValidateResource has nil schema for %s", n.Addr))
+		return diags
 	}
 
-	var diags tfdiags.Diagnostics
 	provider := *n.Provider
 	cfg := *n.Config
 	schema := *n.ProviderSchema
@@ -351,13 +349,13 @@ func (n *EvalValidateResource) Validate(ctx EvalContext) error {
 				Detail:   fmt.Sprintf("The provider %s does not support resource type %q.", cfg.ProviderConfigAddr(), cfg.Type),
 				Subject:  &cfg.TypeRange,
 			})
-			return diags.Err()
+			return diags
 		}
 
 		configVal, _, valDiags := ctx.EvaluateBlock(cfg.Config, schema, nil, keyData)
 		diags = diags.Append(valDiags)
 		if valDiags.HasErrors() {
-			return diags.Err()
+			return diags
 		}
 
 		if cfg.Managed != nil { // can be nil only in tests with poorly-configured mocks
@@ -394,13 +392,13 @@ func (n *EvalValidateResource) Validate(ctx EvalContext) error {
 				Detail:   fmt.Sprintf("The provider %s does not support data source %q.", cfg.ProviderConfigAddr(), cfg.Type),
 				Subject:  &cfg.TypeRange,
 			})
-			return diags.Err()
+			return diags
 		}
 
 		configVal, _, valDiags := ctx.EvaluateBlock(cfg.Config, schema, nil, keyData)
 		diags = diags.Append(valDiags)
 		if valDiags.HasErrors() {
-			return diags.Err()
+			return diags
 		}
 
 		req := providers.ValidateDataSourceConfigRequest{
@@ -412,17 +410,7 @@ func (n *EvalValidateResource) Validate(ctx EvalContext) error {
 		diags = diags.Append(resp.Diagnostics.InConfigBody(cfg.Config))
 	}
 
-	if n.IgnoreWarnings {
-		// If we _only_ have warnings then we'll return nil.
-		if diags.HasErrors() {
-			return diags.NonFatalErr()
-		}
-		return nil
-	} else {
-		// We'll return an error if there are any diagnostics at all, even if
-		// some of them are warnings.
-		return diags.NonFatalErr()
-	}
+	return diags
 }
 
 func (n *EvalValidateResource) validateCount(ctx EvalContext, expr hcl.Expression) tfdiags.Diagnostics {
diff --git a/terraform/eval_validate_test.go b/terraform/eval_validate_test.go
index ce23b3596..5ff84fee1 100644
--- a/terraform/eval_validate_test.go
+++ b/terraform/eval_validate_test.go
@@ -238,45 +238,6 @@ func TestEvalValidateResource_warningsAndErrorsPassedThrough(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestEvalValidateResource_ignoreWarnings(t *testing.T) {
-	mp := simpleMockProvider()
-	mp.ValidateResourceTypeConfigFn = func(req providers.ValidateResourceTypeConfigRequest) providers.ValidateResourceTypeConfigResponse {
-		var diags tfdiags.Diagnostics
-		diags = diags.Append(tfdiags.SimpleWarning("warn"))
-		return providers.ValidateResourceTypeConfigResponse{
-			Diagnostics: diags,
-		}
-	}
-
-	p := providers.Interface(mp)
-	rc := &configs.Resource{
-		Mode:   addrs.ManagedResourceMode,
-		Type:   "test_object",
-		Name:   "foo",
-		Config: configs.SynthBody("", map[string]cty.Value{}),
-	}
-	node := &EvalValidateResource{
-		Addr: addrs.Resource{
-			Mode: addrs.ManagedResourceMode,
-			Type: "test-object",
-			Name: "foo",
-		},
-		Provider:       &p,
-		Config:         rc,
-		ProviderSchema: &mp.GetSchemaReturn,
-
-		IgnoreWarnings: true,
-	}
-
-	ctx := &MockEvalContext{}
-	ctx.installSimpleEval()
-
-	err := node.Validate(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Expected no error, got: %s", err)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestEvalValidateResource_invalidDependsOn(t *testing.T) {
 	mp := simpleMockProvider()
 	mp.ValidateResourceTypeConfigFn = func(req providers.ValidateResourceTypeConfigRequest) providers.ValidateResourceTypeConfigResponse {
@@ -323,9 +284,9 @@ func TestEvalValidateResource_invalidDependsOn(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := &MockEvalContext{}
 	ctx.installSimpleEval()
 
-	err := node.Validate(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("error for supposedly-valid config: %s", err)
+	diags := node.Validate(ctx)
+	if diags.HasErrors() {
+		t.Fatalf("error for supposedly-valid config: %s", diags.ErrWithWarnings())
 	}
 
 	// Now we'll make it invalid by adding additional traversal steps at
@@ -344,11 +305,11 @@ func TestEvalValidateResource_invalidDependsOn(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 	})
 
-	err = node.Validate(ctx)
-	if err == nil {
+	diags = node.Validate(ctx)
+	if !diags.HasErrors() {
 		t.Fatal("no error for invalid depends_on")
 	}
-	if got, want := err.Error(), "Invalid depends_on reference"; !strings.Contains(got, want) {
+	if got, want := diags.Err().Error(), "Invalid depends_on reference"; !strings.Contains(got, want) {
 		t.Fatalf("wrong error\ngot:  %s\nwant: Message containing %q", got, want)
 	}
 
@@ -360,11 +321,11 @@ func TestEvalValidateResource_invalidDependsOn(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 	})
 
-	err = node.Validate(ctx)
-	if err == nil {
+	diags = node.Validate(ctx)
+	if !diags.HasErrors() {
 		t.Fatal("no error for invalid depends_on")
 	}
-	if got, want := err.Error(), "Invalid depends_on reference"; !strings.Contains(got, want) {
+	if got, want := diags.Err().Error(), "Invalid depends_on reference"; !strings.Contains(got, want) {
 		t.Fatalf("wrong error\ngot:  %s\nwant: Message containing %q", got, want)
 	}
 }