KevinSim wrote:
Brackite, did you read my post? 26:33 doesn't say God will give the priesthood to everybody. Do you think God should give the priesthood to the five-year-old child I mentioned?
Hi KevinSim,
Yes, I do believe that a five-year-old child can fully come unto the Lord God without receiving the "Priesthood."
However, According to LDS Theology, A Man must receive six ordinances in order to fully come unto the Lord God. I extracted the six ordinances that a man must receive from the Book, "The Miracle of Forgiveness," by Twelfth LDS President Spencer W. Kimball:
Here is that Quote from Kimball's Book:
In order to reach the goal of eternal life and exaltation and godhood, one must be initiated into the kingdom by baptism, properly performed; one must receive the Holy Ghost by the laying on of authoritative hands; a man must be ordained to the priesthood by authorized priesthood holders; one must be endowed and sealed in the house of God by the prophet who holds the keys or by one of those to whom the keys have been delegated; and one must live a life of righteousness, cleanliness, purity and service. None can enter into eternal life other than by the correct door Jesus Christ and his commandments.
(Spencer W. Kimball, "The Miracle of Forgiveness," 1969, P.6.)
According to Twelfth LDS President Spencer W. Kimball, an LDS Man must get married in this lifetime if he wants to fully come unto the Lord God.
Here is another Quote from Kimball:
How conclusive! How bounded! How limiting! And we come to realize again as it bears heavily upon us that this time, this life, this mortality is the time to prepare to meet God. How lonely and barren will be the so-called single blessedness throughout eternity! How sad to be separate and single and apart through countless ages when one could, by meeting requirements, have happy marriage for eternity by marrying in the temple by proper authority and continue on in ever-increasing joy and happiness, growth, and development.
(Spencer W. Kimball, "Temples and Eternal Marriage," Ensign, Feb. 1995.)