{"id":2043,"date":"2009-07-22T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2009-07-22T10:30:29","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T17:30:29","slug":"from-the-archives-paradise-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2009\/07\/22\/from-the-archives-paradise-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"From the archives: Paradise of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a title=\"LDS Scriptures Internet Edition: 2 Nephi 9:13\" href=\"http:\/\/scriptures.lds.org\/en\/2_ne\/9\/13#13\">2 Nephi 9:13<\/a>, Jacob starts to say some things that don&#8217;t make sense given the universality of the previous verses.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O how great the plan of our God! For <em>on the other hand<\/em>, the paradise of God must deliver up the <em>spirits of the righteous<\/em>, and the grave deliver up the <em>body of the righteous<\/em>; and the spirit and the body is restored to itself again, and all men become incorruptible, and immortal, and they are living souls, having a perfect knowledge like unto us in the flesh, save it be that our knowledge shall be perfect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whereas Jacob previously indicated that hell was the resting place of all spirits, he now seems to be indicating that the spirits of the righteous have a separate resting place than the spirits of the wicked. While he doesn&#8217;t explicitly state it, perhaps Jacob is implying that hell is for the unrighteous and paradise is for the righteous.<\/p>\n<p>So then, as I mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/kmsiever.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/spiritual-death.html\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>, maybe spiritual death really is sin. Nevertheless, unless God lives in this spiritual paradise, I&#8217;m not to sure we can say scripturally that spiritual death is a separation of us from God.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, does &#8216;paradise of God&#8217; man that God dwells there, or does it mean that it&#8217;s possessed by God or created by God.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/04\/08\/paradise-of-god\/\">Comment at the original post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2 Nephi 9:13, Jacob starts to say some things that don&#8217;t make sense given the universality of the previous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2009\/07\/22\/from-the-archives-paradise-of-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From the archives: Paradise of God<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-archives"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>From the archives: Paradise of God<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2009\/07\/22\/from-the-archives-paradise-of-god\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From the archives: Paradise of God\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 2 Nephi 9:13, Jacob starts to say some things that don&#8217;t make sense given the universality of the previous &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2009\/07\/22\/from-the-archives-paradise-of-god\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Our Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-07-22T17:30:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kim Siever\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kim Siever\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2009\/07\/22\/from-the-archives-paradise-of-god\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2009\/07\/22\/from-the-archives-paradise-of-god\/\",\"name\":\"From the archives: Paradise of God\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-07-22T17:30:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-07-22T17:30:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99e996edc89affe5206808d3f65869d1\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2009\/07\/22\/from-the-archives-paradise-of-god\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/\",\"name\":\"Our Thoughts\",\"description\":\"Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99e996edc89affe5206808d3f65869d1\",\"name\":\"Kim Siever\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/417c7b5f55d329bdd0f64ef4396831db?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/417c7b5f55d329bdd0f64ef4396831db?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kim Siever\"},\"description\":\"Queer Mormon poet with radical political views. 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