Heaven or Hell


On my flights to and from Chantal's graduation I started to read a book that talked about digestion. And this is what I thought about this morning: The last step of digestion, in the large intestines, makes me think of the millennium. This step is where the body tries its best to extract the last possible healthy nutrients from the waste before utterly rejecting it. During the millennium all the wicked suffer the wrath of God, all being in hell and candidates for outer darkness. Those who finally accept baptism and receive the Holy Ghost are saved and not sent to outer darkness. The church and the gospel does it's very best to save every soul that wants to be saved in the Kingdom of God.

All those who do not go to hell go to heaven. This is doctrine in the Bible and the Book of Mormon. Many members of the church think that we have a conflicting understanding from mainstream Christianity because D&C 76 can be interpreted in different ways; but in the introduction when it says that "'Heaven'... must include more kingdoms than one" it is because according to this revelation "'Heaven', as intended for the Saints' eternal home" consists of three kingdoms. Mainstream Christianity is not wrong when they say that people go to either heaven or hell after this life; but they don't understand heaven, or what it takes to get there, nor do they understand the justice of God in the redemption of the wicked. All the wicked, in and after this life, will suffer the wrath of God. Those of the wicked who do not reject the Holy Ghost (aka accept their vicarious baptism) will become saints and receive a telestial glory. This is not conflicting nor misunderstood, for they cannot accept their baptism until they have exercised faith and repented of their sins, according to the gospel, and become holy, without spot; but for them they have to go through hell in order to choose heaven.

Comments

Chantalita said…
The other day I was talking about you and my friend was like - Who is Vince? And I was like - My brother. She looked a little mystified for a minute and then she said...Oh, Vinchenzo!!

It isn't every day I get to see my name in the same sentence as digestion.