ins no more. And oh, what joy, and what marvelous light I did behold; yea, my soul was filled with joy as exceeding as was my pain! “
All of everyone will finally bow the knee.
Apparently you think that
what your church teaches about those who were evil is true. It isn't.
I'm no novice. I know about the spirit prison, the paradise for the righteous, the two Mormon hells, the proxy work for the dead, the three degrees of glory, that there are three levels in the CK and only the members of the Church of the Firstborn which is there receive exaltation and dwell with your three gods, the earth becoming the Celestial Kingdom, and the Book of Mormon which I have read from cover to cover, etc.
Apparently you think that
what your church teaches about those who were evil is true. It isn't.
Within the telestial glory there will be varying degrees of glory even as the stars vary in brightness as we see them. It embraces those who on earth willfully reject the gospel of Jesus Christ, and commit serious sins such as murder, adultery, lying, and loving to make a lie (but yet do not commit the unpardonable sin), and who do not repent in mortality. They will be cleansed in the postmortal spirit world or spirit prison before the resurrection (D&C 76:81-85, 98-106; Rev. 22:15). Telestial inhabitants as innumerable as the stars will come forth in the last resurrection and then be "servants of the Most High; but where God and Christ dwell they cannot come" (D&C 76:112). Although the least of the degrees of glory, yet the Telestial Kingdom "surpasses all understanding" (D&C 76:89). [See alsoDegrees of Glory.]
CLYDE J. WILLIAMS
BYU Harold B. Lee Library
Your church is not the Kingdom of God on earth.
Dream on.
People will only be judged by the
kind of works, whether evil or good, not by degrees. But those
who heard his word, and believed him who sent Jesus, have eternal life, and do not come into judgment, but have passed out of death into life.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowedupon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
God deserves the praise and glory; we aren't worthy.
2 Corithians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
Philippians 1:6
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
1 Corinthians 1:8
Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
There is no middle kingdom. All the sheep are equal because they have faith in the blood of Christ.
Revelation 3:16
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Those who are lukewatm are goats; they didn't have the new birth.
Mormon contradiction of biblical truth is truly sad.
Ephesians 1:3
Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
places in Christ:
Christians are adopted sons and daughters of God's eternal family. And we are temples of the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 1:5
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Of course, I know what it means. I already have eternal life.
Your church is not the Kingdom of God on earth.
“Now it is not possible, in my judgment, for people in the world to accept Christ and come to salvation, unless at one and the same time they accept the prophets whom Christ has sent and receive the administration of holy ordinances under their hands."
Bruce R. McConkie,
Conference Report, October 1951, pp. 146-150
'Now, all the world today, I am sorry to say, with the exception of a handful of people who have obeyed the new and everlasting covenant, are suffering this spiritual death. They are cast out from the presence of God. They are without God, without Gospel truth, and without the power of redemption; for they know not God nor His Gospel. In order that they may be redeemed and saved from the spiritual death which has spread over the world like a pall, they must repent of their sins, and be baptized by one having [LDS] authority, for the remission of sins, that they may be born of God. That is why we want these young men to go out into the world to preach the Gospel. While they themselves understand but little perhaps, the germ of life is in them'"
(President Joseph F. Smith, Conference Report, Oct. 1899, p. 72)
Book of Mormon Student Manual, Copyright 1989, p. 111
People will only be judged by the
kind of works, whether evil or good, not by degrees. But those
who heard his word, and believed him who sent Jesus, have eternal life, and do not come into judgment, but have passed out of death into life.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowedupon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
God deserves the praise and glory; we aren't worthy.
2 Corithians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
Philippians 1:6
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
1 Corinthians 1:8
Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
There is no middle kingdom. All the sheep are equal because they have faith in the blood of Christ.
Revelation 3:16
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Those who are lukewatm are goats; they didn't have the new birth.
“But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” John 3:21[/QUOTE]
Christians are following the Shepherd, not Joseph Smith.[/QUOTE]
Hard to follow. You repeated yourself a few times. You Okay?
