For the general reader who might get misled by what some are saying, I will give an example. Someone who is not married but follows the law, will be saved, and not damned. But they cannot receive the highest levels of exaltation. Some can be saved as angels, rather than as gods/elohim - nevertheless, they are all saved. Some can be saved to become judges of Israel with Christ, but most will not, but they will still be saved from the condemnation of hell. This is how I use the terms. Now, Phoebe, you can twist and turn the words however you want, but the meaning is as I have described.
Have a nice day!
You can accuse as much as you like. It's like water off a duck's back.
To spend eternity with God as a son or daughter, that person
must receive exaltation. That is the only way to avoid LDS damnation(LDS damnation means that your eternal progression is stopped because you weren't obedient). All people who choose to not obey the commandment to marry for eternity are less worthy of spending eternity where the Father is. Those angels did NOT abide the law of eternal marriage and cannot be a son or daughter of Heavenly Father.
Doctrine and Covenants 132.
And Joseph Fielding Smith explained this.
ENDOWMENT AND SEALING PRECEDE SONSHIP. The Lord has given unto us privileges, and blessings and the opportunity of entering into covenants, of accepting ordinances that pertain to our salvation beyond what is preached in the world; beyond the principles of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, repentance from sin, and baptism for the remission of sins, and the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost; and these principles and covenants are received nowhere else but in the temple of God.
If you would become a son or daughter of God and an heir of the kingdom, then you must go to the house of the Lord and receive blessings which there can be obtained and which cannot be obtained elsewhere; and you must keep those commandments and those covenants to the end. . . .
Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, Vol. 2, p. 40
EXALTED BEINGS BELONG TO THE CHURCH OF FIRSTBORN. Those who gain exaltation in the celestial kingdom are those who are members of the Church of the Firstborn; in other words, those who keep all the commandments of the Lord. There will be many who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who shall never become members of the Church of the Firstborn.
The higher ordinances in the temple of God pertain to exaltation in the celestial kingdom....In order to receive this blessing, one must keep the full law, must abide the law by which that kingdom is governed; for, "He who is not able to abide the law of a celestial kingdom cannot abide a celestial glory."
Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of salvation, Vol. 2, p. 41-42
CELESTIAL MARRIAGE ESSENTIAL TO EXALTATION. Another thing that we must not forget in this great plan of redemption and exaltation, is that a man must have a wife, and a woman a husband, to receive the fulness of exaltation. They must be sealed for time and for all eternity in a temple;
Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of salvation, Vol. 2, p. 43-44
Brethren, 225,000 of you are here tonight. I suppose 225,000 of you may become gods. There seems to be plenty of space out there in the universe. And the Lord has proved that he knows how to do it. I think he could make, or probably have us help make, worlds for all of us, for every one of us 225,000.
Just think of the possibilities, the potential. Every little boy that has just been born becomes an heir to this glorious, glorious program. When he is grown, he meets a lovely woman; they are married in the holy temple. They live all the commandments of the Lord. They keep themselves clean. And then they become sons of God, and they go forward with their great program—they go beyond the angels, beyond the angels and the gods that are waiting there. They go to their exaltation.
Spencer W. Kimball, Ensign, Nov. 1975, p. 80
SORROW IN RESURRECTION IF NO ETERNAL MARRIAGE. These young people who seem to be so happy now, when they rise in the resurrection—and find themselves in the condition in which they will find themselves—then there will be
weeping, and
wailing, and
gnashing of teeth, and
bitterness of soul; and they have brought it upon themselves because of their lack of faith and understanding of the gospel, and from, I am sorry to say, the encouragement they have received many times from their own parents....
Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, Vol. 2, p. 60
If you want to call "weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth" salvation, go right ahead, but your arguements will get you nowhere.
