Last Judgment
Numerous passages from the scriptures teach that there will be a time when we will be called before God and be judged. Revelation 20:12 says, “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, (Read more).
Mortality
Mortality is the time from birth until physical death. However, doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon Church) teaches that mortality is much more than just the time from birth to death. It is a vital part of God’s plan for His children (Read more).
Post-Mortal Spirit World
“The postmortal spirit world is an actual place where spirits reside and ‘where they converse together the same as we do on the earth’ (TPJS, p. 353). ‘Life and work and activity all continue in the spirit world. Men have the same talents and intelligence there, which they had in this life. They possess the same attitudes, inclinations, and feelings there which they had in this life” (Read more).
Pre-Mortal Life
Like most Christians, Mormons believe in life after death, but members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) also believe in life before birth. This unique doctrine gives members insight into why we are here and what life’s purpose is.
Mormon doctrine teaches that individuals have always existed (Read more).
Salvation
In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon Church), the term “salvation” means, “to be saved from both physical and spiritual death.” Mormons believe that every person will be saved from physical death by the grace of God, through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. “Each individual can be saved from spiritual death as well (Read more).
Joy
The object of the Plan of Salvation is eternal joy. The Lord said, “Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy” (2 Nephi 2:25). In 3 Nephi 28:10 it says, “And for this cause ye shall have fulness of joy; and ye shall sit down in the kingdom of my Father; yea, your joy shall be full, even as the Father hath given me fulness of joy; and ye shall be even as I am, and I am even as the Father; and the Father and I are one.” But the Lord intended that we should find joy also during our mortal existence and not just when we reach the heavenly realm. (Read more…)