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by pencil_boy on December 6th, 2005

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What must you do in order to be able to go to the top level of heaven?

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  • by Anonymous on December 7th, 2005

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    "Whenever the fulness of the gospel is on earth, the Lord has agents to whom he gives power to bind on earth and seal eternally in the heavens. (Matthew 16:19; 18:18; Helaman 10:3–10; D&C 132:46–49.) . . .


    The Prophet Joseph Smith said he was frequently asked the question, "‘Can we not be saved without going through with all those ordinances, etc?' I would answer, No, not the fullness of salvation. Jesus said, ‘There are many mansions in my Father's house, and I will go and prepare a place for you.' House here named should have been translated kingdom; and any person who is exalted to the highest mansion has to abide a celestial law, and the whole law too" (History of the Church, 6:184).

    "All things that are not sealed by this power have an end when men are dead. Unless a baptism has this enduring seal, it will not admit a person to the celestial kingdom; unless an eternal marriage covenant is sealed by this authority, it will not take the participating parties to an exaltation in the highest heaven within the celestial world.


    "All things gain enduring force and validity because of the sealing power. So comprehensive is this power that it embraces ordinances performed for the living and the dead, seals the children on earth up to their fathers who went before, and forms the enduring patriarchal chain that will exist eternally among exalted beings" (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 2nd edition [1966], 683).


    In the Church we hold sufficient authority to perform all of the ordinances necessary to redeem and to exalt the whole human family. And, because we have the keys to the sealing power, what we bind in proper order here will be bound in heaven. Those keys—the keys to seal and bind on earth, and have it bound in heaven—represent the consummate gift from our God. With that authority we can baptize and bless, we can endow and seal, and the Lord will honor our commitments.

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    • Mansions do not represent different levels of heaven or different levels of the celestial kingdom

      John Pacella

      by John Pacella on December 8th, 2005

    • I don't know any Christian that believes that, oh wait LDS are not Christians that's why, silly me. See I believe in Jesus, he died for our sins, all things through Christ, you don't hold the keys or the priesthood, it was never lost....Christ has them, it the high priest and lives.

      Weird Science

      by Weird Science on December 23rd, 2007

    • Christ is a He and not a it.

      Anonymous

      by Anonymous on July 18th, 2009

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