Mormons: Why do you refuse to directly answer the question about whether you get your own planet?

Question

Are you embarassed? Are you following "milk before meat"?

Can you simply give a "yes" or "no" and then explain why?

Betas_Fishy: No, you didn't. You said 'This is much bigger than simply "getting our own planet"'. That is a vague and ambiguous answer. Do you or do you not get your own planet? I don't need to know if you get more than that for now.

Beta_Fishy: Thanks for making my point.

Beta_Fishy: My deduction is that you do think that. My question is why you make people deduce it.

Answer 1

I already answered this question quite explicitly: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqhSMhnNOOLUZgP8DcUIeQ7sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070926064231AAXgwcM&show=7#profile-info-Wfj9DgYVaa

EDIT: I'm not going to "dumb it down" for you.

EDIT: And I thought atheists were supposed to be the "logical" ones... Is basic deduction really that hard for you??? LOL

Answer 2

I agree with Pinkadot. Mostly it's because it's not a yes/no answer. It's dependant upon many things that we don't know yet.
Is it POSSIBLE that there will be people who "get their own planet"? Yes.
Will EVERY Mormon "get their own planet"? No.
Why? - there's the rub. It depends on personal worthiness, and if after all is said and done concerning Judgement and where we will spend eternity, if we even want one.

Am I embarassed? No. Why should I be? I don't think I have anything to be embarassed about.

Am I following the principle of "milk before meat"? Yes. And I have no problem with that. It's how I was taught, and it's a principle that I didn't follow or know to follow when trying to explain my decision to convert to my Mother and now she is quite the little anti.
Why do I follow the milk before meat principle? Because when you want to learn about something you don't go from lesson/step 1 to step 6, to step 50, back to step 4, then on to step 76 before going back to step 2. It makes absolutely no sense that way. You go from step 1 to step 2, to step 3, etc. and it naturally flows from one step to the next. Done any other way and you walk away having more questions than you started.

Can I simply give a "yes" or "no" and then explain why? No. If I have to explain why then I'm accused of dancing around the issue. If I give a yes/no answer I'm accused of not providing enough detail/supporting documentation for my stance and/or being too embarassed to provide a quality answer.
You can't have it both ways. I can either say Yes, or No OR I can explain my answer, OR you/others like you can accept the answer I give. You can't tell me that I can only answer it in one way then not be satisfied when the answer isn't to your liking.

Answer 3

We "refuse" to answer because we simply don't 100% know.
We may or may not. It is a possibility not a 'guarantee'. It isn't a yes or no answer it is a "maybe".

We assume that since we believe God is our Father, that we can inherit all that he has, and possibly become a god ourselves, that would also mean having our own planet and progressing...but that is our assumption. There is no set doctrine that says "each member who is worthy will receive their own planet."

I love the whole "milk before meat" thing... I don't know why that is such a big deal. Think about the way we learn. We learn to add and subtract before multiplying. We learn how to spell before we learn the different parts of speech.
In the beginning, we learn we are children of God. We learn about the Savior. Can you imagine teaching someone about the atonement, repentance, eternal life, before they even knew anything about Christ or the whole reason he lived on this earth?

Sometimes we tip-toe around answers because there isn't an exact answer. There is much more to consider than just 'oh I get my own planet.'

Answer 4

ex-mormon, you must goto the celestial kingdom firstm but what happens after that, further judgement and then you get your own planet, what about Elohim's granparent and his geneology, Joseph smith never provided that? He never said who Elohim's Mom and dad were or what planet they were on or if they were in another dimention, oh that would be worshippin another god and goddess, but then the mormons worship nmore then one God and get mad when christians worship the triune or trinity, anyways, then what abou adam and eve, why was only eve put in the garden of eden and not the other wives and why was the scripture not changed when jo smith was adding things back into scripture "and they shall become one or three and four or more." and why when jesus went into the jeruselem temple did not joseph smith say that he taught the disaples to do secret hand shakes? and why was the angel moroni not a resurrected being? all questions I want to know???

Answer 5

I have never been told by anybody in the church that I get my own planet. I have been through the temple and didnt hear it there either. When I go to church every Sunday we talk about how to follow Jesus Christ's example of loving one another, and how to better our lives. We talk about not judging others, and how we should serve others. We dont talk about 99% of the things I see posted here.

Answer 6

Okay, I will answer it..

Yes - IF I was a God I could have a planet if I wanted.. I guess I could have a Porshe and a nice little house on a beach somewhere also.

Why, you ask? Why not? IF I am a God I can have and make anything.

Answer 7

Although you ask it in such a way that requires a yes/no answer, it is not that simple.

Are you still beating your wife?

That is a yes/no question, but you might want to give an explanation for an answer instead.

Answer 8

I don't find it that unreasonable. Where did God come from? He must be from somewhere and if he exists then why can't more Gods and Goddesses exist? Yes, Mormons do believe that they too can become a God or Goddess and create their own worlds.

Answer 9

Mormon's get their own planets? Damn, I want a planet! Are these planets habitable? That would even make it a better deal.

Answer 10

We can't give you answers that we don't know.