People are given free will. Yet we have to give up free will in order to enter Heaven. Sounds like a pretty lousy gift if it has to be given back.
Also, If we must accept Christ as our Saviour in order to get accepted into Heaven what happens to the other billions of people? It seems quite hilarious, like a bad joke. Are they reincarnated to try again?
2007-05-03 02:31:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The answer from the person above me made me laugh...
You claim that a person still has free will, but you baptize people after they are DEAD!?
Where is THEIR free will? Had they wished to be baptized, they would have done it while ALIVE. You have taken away their free will and imposed your own wishes and beliefs upon them.
Of course, all of that is moot as there is no god and no heaven anyway.
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2007-05-03 02:41:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The glories of heaven are divided into three main groups. Within those three groups are other divisions that would prove suitable to every person living on the earth at one time or the other.
Further, each person, regardless his acceptance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ or not, will have a place reserved for him upon Judgment Day. Those choosing not to accept Christ and His teachings will go to a lesser glory of heaven than for those that do believe in Him.
God the Father wants all His children to return to Him, but He will never force it ,but through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The higher glories are those reserved for prophets of God, righteous men and women obeying every commandment given of God, and those sealed for the eternities in the temples of the Lord. This level and the next one lesser is also reserved for those being baptized while in mortality or having accepted the ordinance done in their behalf by mortals.
The lesser of the kingdoms--surely be subdivided as well--is reserved for those disbelievers and sinful people that chose not to accept Christ's teachings or His Church. Here again, this is a glory of heaven.
The least of these glories is not a glory, but called Outer Darkness, reserved for the Sons of Perdition and those fighting against the Holy Ghost. This would truly be a hell.
2007-05-03 12:35:47 · answer #2 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How exactly do we have to give up our free will?
As a member of the LDS church, we perform proxy ordinances, including baptisms for the dead, that way if someone never heard of Christ they will have the chance to after they die, and be baptized. That is why we love genealogy :D
Their free will is being able to choose after they die, actually it an unselfish act, if you truly love something you want everyone else to have the same happiness you have. It't not like we take their bodies and baptize them, we are being baptized for them and we only do it for our family members and other families members who have been researched. I have the free will to choose to do this, and they have the free will not to accept. "If they wished to be baptized they would have done it while they were alive" What about people who have no clue who Jesus is who have no idea what baptism is, who have never even heard of that concept?
2007-05-03 09:35:30 · answer #3 · answered by divinity2408 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Who says you give up free will?
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2007-05-03 09:35:06 · answer #4 · answered by km 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋