Ensign, “We Believe in Being Chaste”, May 2013; “The eternal importance of chastity can only be understood within the overarching context of our Heavenly Father’s plan of happiness for His children. “All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and … has a divine nature and destiny” (“The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2010, 129). All men and women lived with God as His spirit children before coming to the earth as mortal beings. The Father’s plan enables His spirit sons and daughters to obtain physical bodies, to gain mortal experience, and to progress toward exaltation.” – LDS apostle David Bednar
1 Cor 15:44-47; “It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.”
While working on a project for the ministry I came across this Ensign article and saw so many problems within its text that I couldn’t just bypass it for another time. For the next couple of days we’ll be looking at the major components in this piece provided by LDS apostle David Bednar and compare them with the word of the Lord.
I grew up believing that someday I’d be a goddess wife to a polygamous husband on a planet much like Kolob. On that planet we’d be having lots and lots of spirit babies and from what I was taught as a young girl, pregnancies in heaven would last as long as they do here on earth – 9 months. Soooo…I’m wondering….
If our spirits are eternal how is it that an exalted man turned god and his goddess wife would need to have marital relations to beget spirit babies? Of course the Church would like to redefine the meaning of many words so let’s take a look at how they spin this story –
Life Before, pp 42-43; “Applying this same concept to the eternal nature of man, Elder Penrose went on to sag that “the individual, the organized person may have had a beginning, but that spirit of which and by which they [were] organized never had a beginning….The primal particles never had a beginning. They have been organized in different shapes [as individual entities]; the organism [individual spirit] had a beginning, but the elements or atoms of which it is composed never had….The elementary parts of matter as well as of spirit, using ordinary terms, never had a beginning.”” – Brent Top
So if they never had a beginning how did they get into the bodies of the exalted men and women who are now gods and goddesses?
The Seer, pp 38-39; “If we admit that one personage was the Father of all this great family, and that they were all born of the same Mother, the period of time intervening between the birth of the oldest and the youngest spirit must have been immense…But as heavenly things are, in many respects, typical of the earthly, it is altogether probable that the period required for the formation of the length as that required in this world for the organization of the infant tabernacle.” – Orson Pratt
We’re going to forego the subject of having divine qualities because that’s for another day, suffice it to say that’s a lie as well. As is the incessant need to talk about sex all the time with the youth groups of Mormonism.
I’m certain that I’m not the only ex-Mormon who was surprised to learn of the Apostle Paul’s teaching in Corinthians refuting the pre-existence! Just think – it’s like déjà vu all over again and the newly repackaged stories are called Mormonism. Hmmm…
The words of our Lord Jesus come to mind whenever I think of the pre-existence and I wonder what the response to His teaching has on the Mormon people today.
John 3:13; “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.”
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