I\'ve never heard of that from any belief anywhere. Where did you find that heaping load of crap?
On one of those Christian preaching shows early in the morning. He gave like a half hour seminar about why we humans are superior to angels, and even took scriptures out of the Bible to prove it (I can\'t remember the scriptures, but at the time I was saying, "you are taking that out of context you fool!"
) I knew it was BS, and you obviously do too, but there are religions out there who are being taught things that you and I think is BS.
Titan:
Reading about this Joe Smith guy, I can make a few assumptions. He sounds to me like a nerd that no one would talk to. His idea\'s seem to be crap but people believed them for some weird reason.
Yes, for some weird reason 11 million people believe this crazy guy. And for some reason our church is growing faster than any other church out there because of what this crazy guy who nobody liked wrote. *grOan* And just a correction, this guy was no nerd. He was a normal person who had a fourth grade education, yet he somehow managed to "write" a 500 page book in 75 days that never contradicts itself and has withstood thousands of people\'s attacks on it. It also gives accurate details about different places and things in the world, places that Joseph himself had never seen. As technology progresses and more things about this world are discovered, more and more things point to the Book of Mormon being true instead of false like most people would think.
He said that Jesus came again to the Aztecs. How could he come and go again? The second coming is it.
The people on the Americas needed to witness that Jesus Christ had been crucified, and then resurrected. If you want to know about it, read 3 Nephi, chapter 11 in the Book of Mormon.
And what is this crap I\'m hearing that this is God\'s play place from another planet?
It\'s just that, crap. Troglodyte used words to represent something, and then you took those words and modified them a little more. Now they are meaningless. Just forget about it.
I also read that the mormons believe that God has sex where and whenever with how many women he wants. No wonder so many followers. The sex.
Wow, if you read it, it must be true! Mormons are Do0M3D!
I also read that you believe that when you die, you get your own planet. So according to mormons, there are people living on Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto? That sounds too far fetched.
Open your mind a little bit. The 9 planets orbiting around the Sun are not the only planets in the universe. What you are asking about is what we call the Plan of Salvation. Here is a breef summery.
1. Premortal life.
2. Earth - we come down here to get our bodies, to get baptised, to get married to a wife, and to live worthily of returning back to God.
3. We go to the spirit world (which iirc, is right here on this planet, just dead [I want to pic a wink emoticon here, but I\'m already over the pic limit][I want to put an agry emoticon here, but, well, you know]). And on the spirit world, there are two places, or spiritual states, you can go, prison or paradise. Don\'t let the words fool you, the only difference is that the paradise is people who know of the true gospel, and the prison is the people who don\'t know yet about the true gospel. The people in paradise go around teaching the people in prison about the gospel, and they have a choice to accept it or not.
4. We are judged for our actions on this planet.
5. We go to one of the 3 kingdoms according to how well we did on this planet.
- The worst is the Telestial Kingdom. All sinners go here.
- The middle one is the terestial Kingdom. All people who have lived a worthy life but have not accepted the true church go here.
- The highest and best one is the Celestial Kingdom. There are 3 degrees of glory in the Celestial Kingdom.
The three degrees of the Celestial Kingdom are as follows:
- The lowest one is where people go to become Angels, or messengers of God. This is where the people go who never got married, but they were Baptised in the true church and have lived a worthy life.
- The middle one is still not known to us. Most likely we will not have to worry about what this one is.
- The Highest Kingdom is Exaltation. If you do everything you need to on the Earth (Baptism in the true church, eternal marriage in the temple), than you will go here. Here, and only here, is where you can progress. You and your spouse can work hard and study and eventually become Gods. Then you can have seed without number like God says to Abraham in the bible.
Here is a pic of what I just said above. It\'s the only pic I could find on the internet, so sorry about it being so freaking colorful. (I have never seen a picture of the Plan of Salvation that is this colorful, ugh.)
You may think that us Mormons are crazy for believing things like that, and that\'s fine, we\'re used to being called crazy.
But I want to point out that recent reports from scientists revealed that the Universe is actually
growing...hmmm, I wonder why.
EDIT: To clarify on that last sentence, that is just a theory of mine and is not revelation of any kind. Oh, and I also added a cool little "Plan of Salvation" picture. Enjoy.
