[tantiboh]

~”Instead of your self-aggrandizing condescension, why not tell us gentiles why you think Ghandi will not be condemned for rejecting Jesus Christ in this life when he heard the Gospel. Or don’t you have anything of substance to offer, Mormon?”~

Did I ever tell you how charming you are when you use the word “Mormon” as an epithet? It really displays your intellectual prowess, too.

You know very well our doctrine regarding free agency. As it pertains to accepting the Gospel, we believe that a person isn’t accountable for not having the truth until they, of their own free will, accept or reject it.

Whether or not they have actually rejected it, we leave up to the Lord to decide. For example, I knocked on a lot of doors as a missionary in Italy. Many of them were closed in my face. Did those people reject the Gospel? How could they have if they didn’t know what they were rejecting? Perhaps my role was simply to plant a seed in their heart; maybe one day in the future, they will be prepared, and will be able to make a knowledgeable decision at that time.

Apply the same principle to Ghandi. If he never understood what he never accepted, he never rejected it, did he? I don’t know if he ever had that opportunity such that he knowingly rejected it. That’s up the the Lord to decide. Of course, then you get into the concept of missionary work being done in the life to come, temple work to provide the saving ordinances by proxy, and the grandness of the fullness of the Plan of Salvation. Many Christians fail to realize that the LDS Church is only a very minor part of the Kingdom of God - which extends past this life and beyond.

Be that as it may, unlike many Christians, you see, we Latter-Day Saints are encouraged by our faith to let God be the arbiter of ultimate justice.

[Elsie]

Of course, then you get into the concept of missionary work being done in the life to come, temple work to provide the saving ordinances by proxy, and the grandness of the fullness of the Plan of Salvation.

Yeah!

That's just what I said!

MormonDude(Glad there are so MANY of us!)

[MHGinTN]

“Did I ever tell you how charming you are when you use the word “Mormon” as an epithet?” If you aren’t too lazy to do it, go back and read the sentence. There is a comma prior to the word ‘Mormon’. The word ‘Mormon’ is also capitalized. If you wish to characterize that word as an epithet, capitalized and set apart referentially in the sentence, well, that’s your illiterate problem, Mormon.