Children in Heaven Don’t Grow…Or Do They?
Journal of Discourses 6:10; “A question may be asked—”Will mothers have their children in eternity?” Yes! yes! Mothers, you shall have your children; for they shall have eternal life; for their debt is paid. There is no damnation awaits them, for they are in the spirit. But as the child dies, so shall it rise from the dead, and be for ever living in the learning of God. It will never grow: it will still be the child, in the same precise form as it appeared before it died out of its mother’s arms, but possessing all the intelligence of a God. Children dwell in the mansions of glory and exercise power, but appear in the same form as when on earth. Eternity is full of thrones, upon which dwell thousands of children reigning on thrones of glory, with not one cubit added to their stature.” – Joseph Smith, Jr., Nauvoo, Illinois, April 6, 1844
Doctrines of Salvation 2:56; “When a baby dies, it goes back into the spirit world, and the spirit assumes its natural form as an adult, for we were all adults before we were born.
When a child is raised in the resurrection, the spirit will enter the body and the body will be the same size as it was when the child died. It will then grow after the resurrection to full maturity to conform to the size of the spirit.” – Joseph Fielding Smith
Is this a joke? Why is everyone morphing into different sizes?
Their explanation of this makes me think of a return sale at a store. It didn’t make it so it’s returned from whence it came to be put back on the shelf with the other adult spirits waiting to be born in a baby’s body.
Shape shifting is actually a form of witchcraft.
Yes – Masonic witchcraft!
I know, right?! I remember my mother always calling me after my daughter Mallory died and she kept asking me the same thing over and over…how big do you think she is right now and “has she visited you yet”?
Yikes!
I didn’t know about your daughter. I am so sorry. I’m also grieved that your mother called you and said those things to you at such a time. I was raised in a different cult, Roman Catholicism, yet I can commiserate. I recall a neighbor of ours being told that her stillborn baby was in limbo. And that since the child had not been baptized by a priest, she would never see the child again. Horrible and demonic.
That’s awful about your neighbor as well. Men believing they are God place themselves on the righteous throne of the Only Wise God…may He have patience with them.
Not long after Mallory died (2 yrs) my brother died so it began another psychotic cycle of what if’s for my poor mother. My heart just breaks for those who believe this stuff. Where is the comfort? Where is their god during the hard times? Mercifully God intervened for me. About a year after Mallory died the father of a good friend of mine was a retired pastor and he flew me out to Colorado to have a face to face sit down chat with me about Jesus and Mallory. That man had the patience of Job!
I’m praying God sends every Mormon a Pastor Sully just as He did for me.
Why did you leave Catholicism?
I will be writing at length about my rescue from the Roman cult on our blog soon. I am so grateful to our Lord, that it moves me to tears, and it was 33 years ago! Love your blog!