2006-10-04 01:31:42 · 13 answers · asked by defman88 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Of course not, each of us will be held individually responsible for what we do with Christ.
2006-10-04 01:48:42 · answer #1 · answered by Prophecy+History=TRUTH 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Each blessing our Heavenly Father gives us is conditioned upon something. Yes, families can be together forever. Will every family have every single member of their family with them in the Celestial Kingdom? I doubt it. We do believe that every person must have the chance to accept or reject the gospel, in this life or the next, before the final judgment. What is considered their "chance"? Well, we don't really know because we are not the judge.
So, it is not really possible to answer your question fully because we just don't know who is going to choose the gospel in the end. That is why we strive to live the best we can, be examples, and bring others unto Christ.
Remember: Families CAN be together forever. Can is the keyword.
2006-10-04 15:24:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Families have the opportunities to be together forever. However, as with all blessing, the promise is predicated on remaining true to the faith throughout our lives. It is up to each individual to choose whether or not to follow the tenants of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Of course, I would love it if all of my family would choose to be faithful and achieve the promise of a forever family. I still have hopes that it will be that way. The reality is that if today were it, and we had no more time on this earth to prove our faith, some of my family would not be in a position to enjoy our family relationships in the eternities. These are there choices. I would be sad: sad for them because they could not be with the rest of us, sad for me because I would not see them.
Still, being free to choose is one of God’s greatest blessings. We must not be impelled to faith…we must choose.
2006-10-05 12:19:48 · answer #3 · answered by Maddog Salamander 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Eternal families have their beginning in celestial marriage here in mortality. Faithful members of them continue in the family unit in eternity, in the highest heaven of the celestial world, where they have eternal increase. ( D&C. 131: 1-4; 132:16-32)...By obedience to the laws of the gospel (which are celestial laws), Latter-day Saint families begin here and now to enjoy much of that peace, joy, love, and charity which will be enjoyed in eternal fulness in the exalted family unit." Mormon Doctrine, p 273
There are laws to be fulfilled in order to have your family with you in the celestial world. That is why they have temples, but yes, you must remain faithful. I'll just say, I've been there, now I'm not with this faith. May God bless you in your search for answers and God's will for you.
2006-10-04 08:57:27 · answer #4 · answered by yessireee 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is not true if someone goes from the church. Salvation is something that God has to work out with each of us and if one leaves, that one will not be a part of the church.
I am not a Mormon, but know what they will say to this question.
2006-10-07 19:10:42 · answer #5 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mormon church has "sealing policies":
Sealing ordinances include secret occult ritual covenants they think can bind families together for eternity. These ordinances include (1) sealing of a husband and wife and (2) sealing of children to parents.
Children who are born after their mother has been sealed to a husband in a temple are born in the covenant of that sealing. They do not need to receive the ordinance of sealing to parents. Being born in the covenant entities children to an eternal parentage, depending on their faithfulness. However, it does not guarantee that children will be sealed to their natural parents if the parents are not faithful.
The Seven Deadly Heresies
by
Elder Bruce R. McConkie
June 1, 1980
Heresy five: There are those who say that there is progression from one kingdom to another in the eternal worlds or that lower kingdoms eventually progress to where higher kingdoms once were.
This belief lulls men into a state of carnal security. It causes them to say,
"God is so merciful; surely he will save us all eventually; if we do not gain the celestial kingdom now, eventually we will; so why worry?"
It lets people live a life of sin here and now with the hope that they will be saved eventually.
The true doctrine is that all men will be resurrected, but they will come forth in the resurrection with different kinds of bodies-some celestial, others terrestrial, others telestial, and some with bodies incapable of standing any degree of glory. The body we receive in the resurrection determines the glory we receive in the kingdoms that are prepared.
Of those in the telestial world it is written:
"And they shall be servants of the Most High, but where God and Christ dwell they cannot come, worlds without end" (D&C 76:112).
Of those who had the opportunity to enter into the new and everlasting covenant of marriage in this life and who did not do it the revelation says:.
Therefore, when they are out of the world they neither marry nor are given in marriage; but are appointed angels in heaven; which angels are ministering servants, to minister for those who are worthy of a far more, and an exceeding, and an eternal weight of glory.
For these angels did not abide my law; therefore, they cannot be enlarged, but remain separately and singly, without exaltation, in their saved condition, to all etemity; and from henceforth are not gods, but are angels of God forever and ever. [D&C 132:16-17]
They neither progress from one kingdom to another, nor does a lower kingdom ever get where a higher kingdom once was. Whatever eternal progression there is, it is within a sphere.
http://www.lds-mormon.com/heresies.shtml
Of course all of that is ridiculous and is against God's Word.
The Christian Lord God Jesus has spoken the truth:
Mt 22:29
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
22:30
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Mr 12:24
And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
12:25
For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
2006-10-04 22:37:09 · answer #6 · answered by kirstycristy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NOT FAMILLIES WILL BE. "But families can be" (If they stay true to the doctrines and commandments of God). If a family member goes astray, how will he be together?
2006-10-04 08:41:07 · answer #7 · answered by kinny 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If the member of the family is excommunicated, they will go into outer darkness..... otherwise they will go to one of the three levels of heaven, and work their way up.
2006-10-04 08:38:47 · answer #8 · answered by Miss Vicki 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People go to the societies where their loves reside. This could be a heavenly society or a society in hell. It all depends on the individual. It is highly unlikely that whole families will be together forever.
Jesus said that people cleave to their spouse not their parents.
2006-10-04 08:35:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
There are many religions which are false, but there is one way, and one truth, and you will find this in John's Gospel chapter 3.
Jesus said: I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but through me. There will not be families in Heaven, we will know one another.
2006-10-04 08:36:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋