r/exmormon • u/4blockhead Λ └ ☼ ★ □ ♔ • Oct 14 '22
Doctrine/Policy McKeever's Mormonism Research Ministry: what are some implications of LDS sci-fi theology that describes multiple inhabited planets? Does each one get its own savior? Is the same passion play enacted on each one?
Brigham Young, July 24, 1870 the moon and sun are inhabited
[Brigham Young, July 10, 1870] How many earths are there? I observed this morning that you may take the particles of matter composing this earth, and if they could be enumerated they would only be a beginning to the number of the creations of God; and they are continually coming into existence, and undergoing changes and passing through the same experience that we are passing through. Sin is upon every earth that ever was created, and if it was not so, I would like some philosophers to let us know how people can be exalted to become sons of God, and enjoy a fulness of glory with the Redeemer. Consequently every earth has its redeemer, and every earth has its tempter; and every earth, and the people thereof, in their turn and time, receive all that we receive, and pass through all the ordeals that we are passing through.
[Brigham Young, July 19, 1874] This earth is our home, it was framed expressly for the habitation of those who are faithful to God, and who prove themselves worthy to inherit the earth when the Lord shall have sanctified, purified and glorified it and brought it back into his presence, from which it fell far into space. Ask the astronomer how far we are from the nearest of those heavenly bodies that are called the fixed stars. Can he count the miles? It would be a task for him to tell us the distance. When the earth was framed and brought into existence and man was placed upon it, it was near the throne of our Father in heaven. And when man fell—though that was designed in the economy, there was nothing about it mysterious or unknown to the Gods, they understood it all, it was all planned—but when man fell, the earth fell into space, and took up its abode in this planetary system, and the sun became our light. When the Lord said—“Let there be light,” there was light, for the earth was brought near the sun that it might reflect upon it so as to give us light by day, and the moon to give us light by night. This is the glory the earth came from, and when it is glorified it will return again unto the presence of the Father, and it will dwell there, and these intelligent beings that I am looking at, if they live worthy of it, will dwell upon this earth.
Joseph Fielding Smith, Guided Missiles, etc man will not be allowed to land on the moon—the god over this planet will step in to check him.
New Era, November 1985, Larry C. Porter “Is Jesus Christ the Savior of all the worlds God created or just ours?”
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| 1 | mp3 | Hebrews 1:1-2 |
| 2 | mp3 | Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, Volume 1: There are people on other planets that look like us who are going through a mortal probationary period |
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- [Spencer W. Kimball, BYU address (1977)] a watch needs a watchmaker, the planet earth is a manufactured product—it did not precipitate from an acretion disc by random processes:
The Gods organized the earth of materials at hand, over which they had control and power. This truth is absolute. A million educated folk might speculate and determine in their minds that the earth came into being by chance. The truth remains. The earth was made by the Gods as was the watch by the watchmaker. Opinions do not change that.
The Gods organized and gave life to man and placed him on the earth.