GC Debrief — The Afterlife
I noticed some interesting teaching in passing about the afterlife.
After a period in which the disobedient suffer for their sins, which suffering prepares them for what is to follow, all will be resurrected and proceed to the Final Judgment of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In a word, purgatory. I had never heard this before. Spirit prison is a place of suffering? Check. But I hadn’t put it together that the suffering is preparatory
your choices today will determine three things: where you will live throughout all eternity, the kind of body with which you will be resurrected, and those with whom you will live forever. So, think celestial.
-thus President Nelson
This is one of those restoration beliefs that is on the borderline of being full doctrine but isn’t quite. Me, I thoroughly believe it. In a way I derived it independently from first principles in trying to figure out how the wicked could enjoy a kingdom of glory. The answer I came up with is that they have some good left in them that they can enjoy but to enjoy it their wicked faculties and peccant parts must be removed. Solve the problem or have it removed. Receive the grace of repentance or the grace of judgment.
Zen
November 6, 2023
I wondered for a while why their good deeds don’t cancel out their evil ones. The reason is, God wants them to be able to eternally enjoy their good deeds. So their evil deeds must be considered and cleansed separately.
Eric
November 7, 2023
The idea of having a different kind of body at the resurrection comes from Paul’s teachings in 1 Corinthians 15. Being repeated by modern apostles (Elder McConkie comes to mind), I’d say it’s more than “borderline of being full doctrine but isn’t quite.”