You are citing exceptions - what is the 'rule'. Reading historic teachings by lds prophets and apostles leaves me wondering.
Actually no, I don’t think this is the exception at all.
Godzilla, did you read my long post? Apparently you have, because if you have, you have successfully ignored it.
“Being damned” is not equivalent to “being a son of Perdition.” As the rule of thumb goes, very, very, very few people, born into this life, will become a son of perdition and be cast into outer darkness. As another previous post of mine said, one can still be in a kingdom of glory and still be “damned.”
Are you taking your definition and view of “damn” and “salvation” and trying to force into my beliefs.
A friend of mine from Australia was in college one day and she needed to erase something and hadn’t brought an eraser. She tapped the shoulder of the man sitting in front of her and said in a rather loud voice if he had a rubber that she could use. Needless to say, the whole class erupted into laughter, most of them upon hearing the word “rubber” and here is a beautiful young woman asking this young man for a condom, while some in the class realized that when she said “rubber,” she didn’t mean “condom”, rather she spoke the word that is used in Australia for “eraser.”
If you ask me what I believe, if it doesn’t make any sense to you, ask me to explain more or give more examples. Don’t just simply assume that what you think I saud, or wanted me to say, is what I said. The young man heard “rubber” and thought she meant “condom” and she said “rubber” thinking “eraser.”
It’s like what Steven R. Covey said in his book “7 Habits,” “Seek to understand before being understood.”