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10-10-2007, 07:53 PM | #1 |
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Pre-Mortal Judgement - Doctrine?
I am attending a business meeting with participants from around the world. Of course the luncheon topic gravitated to religion and when I announced my LDS affiliation, the questions began in rapid fire fashion. One of attendees has received the missionary discussions (lives in London), and had a question I could not answer regarding Mormon Doctrine and pre-mortal judgement. Based on his understanding from the missionary discussions, the LDS doctrine is that we were judged prior to receiving our mortal bodies and this directly affects our lot here on earth.
This is the first time I have heard any linkage between pre-mortal behavior and our mortal life. I would like to tell him this is not true, but am looking for sage advice. |
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I've never heard anything like that from any authoritative source.
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Beyond the teaching that the pre-mortal realm was the First Estate and that those that kept their First Estate were allowed to come to earth and receive bodies (which implicitly means some judgment was rendered), I haven't heard anything beyond idle missionary speculation on the matter.
EDIT: I would guess that foreordination also is a form of pre-mortal judgment where something certain individuals did caused them to be assigned certain roles in this life. Are we all foreordained and is all foreordination very specific in nature? I have no idea. Last edited by Indy Coug; 10-10-2007 at 08:00 PM. |
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People often turn to the first part of Alma 13 when the topic of foreordination and pre-mortal judgement comes up. I personally don't know what to think.
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It could also refer to the idea that the valiant souls, all of us Saturday's Warriors, were saved for the Hinckley era.
I am somewhat surprised many of you claim you have never heard htis, as I have heard it many times and have even heard people assert that the quality of our life in this world, from the religion of our parents to the size of the house in which we live, depends on how we acted in the pre-existence. This has been de-emphasized and even disavowed more recently, but it was certainly a popular notion when I was younger.
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So true. The conversation always ended badly, however, when I asked them why I was in such a crappy house with a freeway in the backyard.
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