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by Alatea on November 18th, 2005
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According to the Mormon faith, what happens to a child born out of wedlock after death?
by DarkMaskDiva/KBHCI on June 9th, 2011
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Mormons, I am curious; If when you die, you become a god of your own planet. What is the motivation to stay alive?
by Joseph Smith was a fraud and Eisegete on January 16th, 2012
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According to LDS Doctrine will I have the opportunity to marry my girlfriend in the next life? She passed away almost a year ago and we never had the chance to marry while she was alive.
by Touch_of_The_Masters_Hand on August 16th, 2009
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Dear LDS adherents, how could I improve anyone/anything back on earth from my afterlife if I'm no longer down here?
by Tondoteottotote on February 22nd, 2012
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If Mormons commit monogamy, will they go to hell?
by Gratefully Me on November 9th, 2011
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by coffee bean on November 21st, 2005
Good answer.
by Kim Siever on November 21st, 2005
I'm afraid, Alatea, you have missed the mark completely. Perdition is the name of an individual who will spend eternity with Satan. His name in the Bible is Cain. And those in this life who deny the Holy Ghost will be called the "Sons of Perdition." And I'm afraid you also got hell wrong as well. You got spirit prison right, but the fact is only those who did not get the chance to hear the Gospel in this life, will hear it in the spirit prison. Those who did have the chance and turned it down, will not be taught. Everyone gets only one chance to hear and understand the Gospel, either here on earth or in the spirit world. the Book of Mormon and the D&C, do not disagree...Later
by whew4 on September 20th, 2009
This might help clear up some of your confusion:
Elder Bruce R. McConkie taught the foolishness
of believing that a person can reject the gospel in this
life, accept it in the next, and still inherit celestial
glory. “This life is the time and day of our probation.
After this day of life, which is given us to prepare for
eternity, then cometh the night of darkness wherein
there can be no labor performed.
“For those who do not have an opportunity to
believe and obey the holy word in this life, the first
chance to gain salvation will come in the spirit world.
If those who hear the word for the first time in the
realms ahead are the kind of people who would have accepted the gospel here, had the opportunity been
afforded them, they will accept it there. . . .
“. . . Those who reject the gospel in this life and
then receive it in the spirit world go not to the
celestial, but to the terrestrial kingdom.” (“The Seven
Deadly Heresies,” in Speeches of the Year, 1980 [Provo:
Brigham Young University Press, 1981], pp. 77–78.)
by Benjamin_H2502 on March 8th, 2011