On Godliness

[Warren Ockrassa]

On Feb 25, 2008, at 9:03 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:

> Warren  wrote:
>> There's one god for Earth. Other planets each have their own gods.
>>
>> (That's not facetious; it's LDS doctrine.)
>
> Inhabited planets?  Do they the gods get the planets when they're
> undeveloped and tend them like gardens?  How are they dolled out?

Well, see, it's like this.

God has a wife, and he and she engage in a kind of spiritual  
reproductive process which causes the birth of spirit children. These  
spirit children are born into mortal bodies and live out their lives  
on their god-parents' world. When they die, assuming they've kept in  
alignment with the deific rules, they will be reunited with their  
terrestrial spouses, whereupon they will be given their own planets.  
They'll then engage in the same cycle.

Thus, under LDS doctrine, if you remain righteous and are  
"sealed" (married in a temple) to a spouse, when you and your spouse  
ascend to the highest plane of heaven, you will be given your own  
world to populate with your own spirit children born into mortal bodies.

Presumably, therefore, god and his wife came into this planet via a  
similar means. The reason, BTW, that you and I and the rest of us  
don't remember being spirit children and living in heaven before  
coming to Earth is we pass through a "veil of forgetfulness", which  
prevents our having absolute knowledge -- which would interfere with  
our free agency. Life on Earth is a kind of test, and you have the  
possibility to screw up (sin), though under LDS doctrine it's pretty  
hard, at least, to get yourself thrown into hell. God is cast as  
considerably more forgiving and tolerant than you typically find in  
ultra-right-wing systems. (Though he's still quite anti-gay. You can't  
be a "practicing" homosexual* in the LDS faith.)

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* Expert homosexuals, on the other hand, are welcome.

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