SALVATION THROUGH CHRIST
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THE EXALTATION OF MAN

"And this is the record, that God hath given us eternal life, and this life is in His son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."

"I do not frustrate the Grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain."

a) LOWER DEGREE

Good Mormons, but failed to marry in the Temple and having "other" imperfections. These will be allowed to be angels.

b) MIDDLE DEGREE

Mormons who failed to accept the complete "gospel" but were married in the Temple, sealed to many wives, and are in the process of being exalted through baptism of the dead, etc.

c) HIGHEST DEGREE - EXALTATION

"Perfect" Mormons. They will be gods themselves just like God the Father. Will have eternal, multiple, marriages for the purpose of sexually procreating billions of spirit children to populate another world that they will reign over as that world's god.

"Those who gain only this general or unconditional salvation will still be judged according to their works and receive places in a Terrestial or Telestial kingdom. They will, therefore, be damned; their eternal progression will be cut short; they will not fill the full measure of their creation, but in eternity will be ministering servants to more worthy persons." Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, "Salvation" pg 669-670 (1966 Edition)

"Conditional or individual salvation, that which comes by grace coupled with gospel obedience, consist in receiving an inheritance in the Celestial Kingdom of God. This kind of salvation follows faith, repentance, baptism, receipt of the Holy Ghost, and continued righteousness to the end of one's mortal life. (D & C 20:29 & 2 Nephi 9:23-24). All others are damned --- Even those in the celestial kingdom however, who do not go on to exaltation, will have immortality only and not eternal life --- they will be 'ministering servants, to minister for and to those who are worthy of a far more, and an exceeding and an eternal weight of glory'. They will live "separately and singly" in an unmarried state 'without exaltation, in their saved condition, to all eternity' (D & C 132:16,17). Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consist in gaining an inheritance in the highest of the three heavens within the Celestial Kingdom --- It is the salvation which saints seek --- This full salvation is obtained in and through the continuation of the family unit in eternity, and those who obtain it are gods --- If it had not been for Joseph Smith and the restoration, there would be no salvation. There is no salvation outside The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."

"Then shall they be gods, because they have no end - Then shall they be gods, because they have all power ---"(D & C 132:20)

"Here then is eternal life - to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves, and to be kings and priest to God, the same as all gods have done before you --- and to sit in glory, as do those who sit in everlasting power --- What is it? To inherit the same power, the same glory and the same exaltation, until you arrive at the station of a god ---" Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg 345-347; Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, "Godhood", 1966 Edition, pg 321 History of the Church, Volume 6, page 306

"They are they into whose hands the Father has given all things - they are they who are priest and kings, who have received of His fulness, and his glory -- they are gods --" Doctrine & Covenants, 76:55-58

"As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become." Lorenzo Snow, Millennial Star, Vol 54, pg 404

"Mormonism does not tend to debase God to the level of man, but to exalt man to the perfection of God." Charles W. Penrose,Millenial Star,Vol 23, pg 181

"Even the doctrine of a knowledge of God as the avenue to Godhood made its way outward from the Divine Fountain of Truth into the heathenistic religions of the Mediterranean world. The teaching of the HERMETIC pagan cult sound quite familiar to those who are acquainted with the doctrine taught by Jesus, by John the Beloved, by Paul, and by Joseph Smith, the American Prophet".