Beliefnet.com has an interesting poll where you can input your feelings on different moral and religious topics and they list your “compatibility” with different religious groups of thought. Here’s how the Cinepro Belief-O-Matic turned out:
1. Mahayana Buddhism (100%)
2. Orthodox Judaism (96%)
3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (92%)
4. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (85%)
5. [...]
Who goes to the lower degrees of the CK? To put it bluntly, there is no plausible theory that makes sense or is politically correct. We just don’t know, and I defy anyone to even imagine a scenario where someone is worthy to enter the “Celestial Kingdom” but isn’t worthy of the highest exaltation.
My theory [...]
(A few years back, someone asked who our 12 favorite apostles of all time were. Here’s what I came up with)
If I got to pick 12 apostles to speak in conference, I would choose the following:
- Legrand Richards (improvisational)
- Neil Maxwell (the proper prose of presentation would glisten like intellectual dew on the melon of [...]
An oft pondered aspect to the LDS Plan of Salvation is the question of whether or not there will be “Progression Between the Kingdoms”? (i.e. when someone is judged and assigned to the Terrestrial Kingdom, can they eventually move up to the Celestial Kingdom?)
I’ve heard arguments for both sides, but most seem to skirt the [...]