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To: sevenbak

Oh goody now I get to post it.

What is exaltation?

Blessings of Exaltation
Our Heavenly Father is perfect. However, he is not jealous of his wisdom and perfection. He glories in the fact that it is possible for his children to become like him. He has said, “This is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man” (Moses 1:39).

Those who receive exaltation in the celestial kingdom through faith in Jesus Christ will receive special blessings. The Lord has promised, “All things are theirs” (D&C 76:59). These are some of the blessings given to exalted people:

1. They will live eternally in the presence of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ (see D&C 76).

2. They will become gods.

3. They will have their righteous family members with them and will be able to have spirit children also. These spirit children will have the same relationship to them as we do to our Heavenly Father. They will be an eternal family.

4. They will receive a fulness of joy.

5. They will have everything that our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ have—all power, glory, dominion, and knowledge. President Joseph Fielding Smith wrote: “The Father has promised through the Son that all that he has shall be given to those who are obedient to his commandments. They shall increase in knowledge, wisdom, and power, going from grace to grace, until the fulness of the perfect day shall burst upon them” (Doctrines of Salvation, 2:36).
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sevenbak, are you pulling a romney on us? Giving us half-truths and 'milk before meat.' The public isn't going to fall for it any longer.

Now answer me this sevenbak, how do you EARN exaltation? Is it through the atonement of Christ? Or is it from works that you must do?


76 posted on 02/19/2007 8:30:07 PM PST by colorcountry (Remember: Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.)
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To: colorcountry
Nothing there is contrary to what I posted, nor what Paul, John or Hippolytus said either.

Exaltation is the same as Eternal life, so the answer to your taunt is both, through the atonement of Christ, and keeping His commandments.

D&C 14:7
And, if you keep my commandments and endure to the end you shall have eternal life, which gift is the greatest of all the gifts of God.
83 posted on 02/19/2007 8:40:20 PM PST by sevenbak
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