Ask a Mormon, Part 3
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No, spiritual. In other words, to be exalted one must be sealed, but there will be more women than men worthy of exaltation.
Firstlady
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Why is that? [more women than men worthy of exaltation]
classical_hero
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This is very hard to understand, so can you please explain that.
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Hmm, can't say as I remember where that's from....anyone?
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Well, back when plural marriage was a commandment (both in ancient times and the brief modern time between the 1840s and 1890) men were sealed to more than one women. Since sealing is for eternity, that explains why there will be some men married to more than one woman in the eternities.
Also, there's one way it can happen currently. Example: my father was sealed to my mother when they married. My mother died in 2002. My father remarried, to a woman who had never been married before. So he's sealed to both my mother and my step-mother -- plural marriage. He'll be with them both in the eternities.
Also, there's one way it can happen currently. Example: my father was sealed to my mother when they married. My mother died in 2002. My father remarried, to a woman who had never been married before. So he's sealed to both my mother and my step-mother -- plural marriage. He'll be with them both in the eternities.
Firstlady
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I think we're all clear on that.
We don't understand why more women than men are worthy of exaltation.
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I don't either, but it is my observation that women tend to be more righteous than men on average.
And of course, God is flexible, and can do math. If He needs to adjust things, He can make sure it happens . . .
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Well, there are more women than men, so if they have the same "righteousness percentage" as men there'll already be more of them exalted. If more women act righteously then men, that's even more.
Firstlady
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Yes, I suppose that makes sense...
I'd still like to be my husbands only wife though. :l
Perhaps I'll be more willing to understand when I am older.
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Most men will only ever have one wife. I know my wife wouldn't want to share me.
Firstlady
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Yes, Eran said something similar. Hopefully I find one of the guys in that category. I don't particularly want to share either..
I just wanted to say, I watched the frontline documentary, and was impressed by the honesty of the mormon commentators.
http://www.pbs.org/mormons/view/
http://www.pbs.org/mormons/view/
Well, I looked over that page . . . basically, we do what we do because we believe it is the right thing. And although I can understand people having difficulty with the culture, at the same time bear in mind that people who were excommunicated might not always end up giving a balanced account of what happened. Suffice to say I have never had a problem thinking for myself.
Are you talking about the Frontline documentary?
Iwatched it all, it was great, and very in depth. I was impressed with the honesty of the church elders who talked about the massacre of Arkansas civilians going through Utah. The entire documentary was very good, as are all frontline documentaries.
The excommunication part was strange, one was about women being able to be priests, IIRC, and the other about a homosexual. Like a mormon friend of mine who was excommunicated for knocking his girlfriend up, I found it strange that both people still wanted back into the church that excommunicated them.
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This may be very basic, and I really have little knowledge of Mormonism, but I have become intrigued by it since Mitt Romney's rise to the spotlight.
What are the differences between Mormonism and mainstream Christianity?
I remember hearing about a guy on the campaign trail when Romney stopped into town that he refused to shake Romney's hand because he is a Mormon. Are there tensions between Mormonism and Christianity? Judaism? Islam?
What are the differences between Mormonism and mainstream Christianity?
I remember hearing about a guy on the campaign trail when Romney stopped into town that he refused to shake Romney's hand because he is a Mormon. Are there tensions between Mormonism and Christianity? Judaism? Islam?
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Mormonism considers itself a part of Christianity. There are no tensions with Judaism or Islam, either. Mormons respect people of other faiths, and actually have several things in common with both Jews and Muslims.
The tensions arise mainly with "charimsatic" Christians, born-agains, and the like. They hate us. I'm not quite sure why, either. As far as I can tell it's just about the doctrinal differences. I've encountered many, many of these people, and when I ask them to tell me what the problem is, I just get some spiel about how I'm going to hell. It's usually shouted at me too.
I've yet to get a straight, logical answer, so I've really stopped asking. (Frustrated.)I don't have time to list out all the doctrinal differences at the moment, maybe one of the other guys can. But here's a link to the Articles of Faith, 13 statements of belief from our founding prophet, Joseph Smith. Hope these help clarify a little.
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/a_of_f/1
Mormonism considers itself a part of Christianity. There are no tensions with Judaism or Islam, either. Mormons respect people of other faiths, and actually have several things in common with both Jews and Muslims.
The tensions arise mainly with "charimsatic" Christians, born-agains, and the like. They hate us. I'm not quite sure why, either. As far as I can tell it's just about the doctrinal differences. I've encountered many, many of these people, and when I ask them to tell me what the problem is, I just get some spiel about how I'm going to hell. It's usually shouted at me too.
I don't have time to list out all the doctrinal differences at the moment, maybe one of the other guys can. But here's a link to the Articles of Faith, 13 statements of belief from our founding prophet, Joseph Smith. Hope these help clarify a little.
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/a_of_f/1
Maybe this will help you
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0061/0061_01.asp
Unfortunately, Godwynn, there are some idiots in the evangelical movement who hold a dim view of the LDS Church and Mormonism. Bill O'Reilly had one such nimrod on his show last night, a Bill Keller (not to be confused with the New York Times editor Bill Keller). You can read more or less what Keller's views are here. Thankfully, O'Reilly thoroughly denounced the man's opinions, but it's still a terrible shame that someone would think like that.
Mormons believe in God and believe Christ is his son and the path to salvation. Can't get much more Christian than that, eh?
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