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The LDS Church believes that the war in heaven started in the premortal existence when Heavenly Father created the Plan of salvation to enable humanity to become like him. Jesus Christ as per the plan was the Savior and those who followed the plan would come to Earth to experience mortality and progress toward eternal life.
The church teaches that after death exalted individuals will continue having marital sexual relations, create worlds, and have spirit children over which they will govern as gods. [ 1 ] [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Recent examples of this include a 2010 church manual which states that after death exalted adherents can "develop a kingdom over which [they] will ...
Church Reformation tenderly handled in four sermons, London, 1643. The doctrine and practice of Pædo-baptisme asserted and vindicated, London, 1645. Stand Still; or, a Bridle for the Times, London, 1647 and 1652. Two Treatises: the One handling the Doctrine of Christ's Mediatorship. The other of Mystical Implantation, 2 parts, London, 1651–2.
The New Testament writings contend that the resurrection was "the beginning of His exalted life" [189] [note 19] as Christ and Lord. [ 191 ] [ web 2 ] Jesus is the " firstborn of the dead", prÅtotokos , the first to be raised from the dead, thereby acquiring the "special status of the firstborn as the preeminent son and heir".
The sermon was not always viewed in a favorable light by leaders of the LDS Church [6] or other denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement. It was not published in the LDS Church's 1912 History of the Church because of then-church president Joseph F. Smith's discomfort with some ideas in the sermon popularized by the editor of the project, B. H. Roberts of the First Council of the Seventy. [7]
A depiction of the Plan of Salvation, as illustrated by a source within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the theology and cosmology of Mormonism, in heaven there are three degrees of glory (alternatively, kingdoms of glory) which are the ultimate, eternal dwelling places for nearly all who have lived on earth after they are resurrected from the spirit world.
The Session of Christ or heavenly session is a Christian doctrine stating that Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand of God the Father in Heaven—the word "session" is an archaic noun meaning "sitting". Although the word formerly meant "the act of sitting down", its meaning is somewhat broader in current English usage, and is used to refer ...
Based on their spiritual experiences and tested against the testimony of scripture, George Fox and early Quakers believed that transformation by the Holy Spirit was a normal experience within the early church, where individuals and communities were led by the living presence of Christ dwelling within them.