{"id":2520,"date":"2011-01-03T15:55:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T22:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2011-01-03T15:55:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T22:55:34","slug":"we-believe-in-a-much-more-diverse-afterlife-than-mainstream-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2011\/01\/03\/we-believe-in-a-much-more-diverse-afterlife-than-mainstream-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"We believe in a much more diverse afterlife than mainstream Christianity."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading this month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ensign<\/em> magazine earlier today, and came upon an article by Dallin H. Oaks entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fundamental to Our Faith\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. One paragraph in particular stood out.<\/p>\n

Finally, our understanding of the purpose of mortal life includes some unique doctrines about what follows mortality. Like other Christians, we believe that when we leave this life, we go to a heaven (paradise) or a hell. But to us this two-part division of the righteous and the wicked is merely temporary while the spirits of the dead await their resurrection and Final Judgment (see Alma 40:11\u00e2\u20ac\u201c14). The destinations that follow the Final Judgment are much more diverse, and they stand as evidence of the magnitude of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s love for His children\u00e2\u20ac\u201dall of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most of Christianity believes in a two-part afterlife: heaven and hell. Mormonism, on the other hand, generally believes in a more diverse afterlife: Celestial Kingdom, Terrestrial Kingdom, Telestial Kingdom, and Outer Darkness.<\/p>\n

Elder Oaks, however, said something that made me wonder. He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just say that afterlife destinations we\u00c2\u00a0believe\u00c2\u00a0in are more diverse than mainstream Christianity; he specifically said the destinations we believe in are much more diverse<\/em>.<\/p>\n

To me, four is not much more diverse from two, so I wonder what Elder Oaks had in mind when he specifically chose these words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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