Phillip wrote:Maybe the non-exalted will end up agreeing with Sophocles:
"How does love suit with age, Sophocles, --are you still the man you were? Peace, he replied; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."
I can certainly see a positive aspect of life without lust.
The scripture is extant with a simple rationale extrapolated from the fact that ONLY those who enter into their exaltation have the seeds to continue both in the world and out of the world.
This is doctrine (and scripture).
THIS implies absolutely that damnation is herd management where steers and steerettes are made. Women who fail exaltation will not have the power of conception. Men who fail exaltation will not have the seeds. NO STUFF. A nub for both.
I would still rather go to one of the TKs than the CK as it is currently taught by the LDS church. Smoothie or not. There may not be sex, but at least there will be equality.
Besides, there isn't going to be any sex in the CK. LDS prophets have plainly taught that celestial bodies lack blood. Guess what you need blood for?
"It seems to me that these women were the head (κεφάλαιον) of the church which was at Philippi." ~ John Chrysostom, Homilies on Philippians 13
How could this possibly be doctrine when it was something conjured by those who fancied themselves as having Harems in Heaven and desired to eliminate any of the competition to make it binding. It is almost like a repeat of the Bishop Snow from Manti story on a celestial level, castrate the competition and the young perfected nubiles would have no recourse but to be sister-wives.
Besides, there isn't going to be any sex in the CK. LDS prophets have plainly taught that celestial bodies lack blood. Guess what you need blood for?
Don't think you can reasonably come to the conclusion that there is nothing that can (or that spirit can't) firm the flesh. For example, when the resurrected Christ appeared to the disciples on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24:13-15. No mention of some scary looking creature whose flesh clung to his bones. So if spirit can keep the flesh looking firm, then there is no reason to think the sexual function is inoperative on the basis of no blood.
Besides, there isn't going to be any sex in the CK. LDS prophets have plainly taught that celestial bodies lack blood. Guess what you need blood for?
Don't think you can reasonably come to the conclusion that there is nothing that can (or that spirit can't) firm the flesh. For example, when the resurrected Christ appeared to the disciples on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24:13-15. No mention of some scary looking creature whose flesh clung to his bones. So if spirit can keep the flesh looking firm, then there is no reason to think the sexual function is inoperative on the basis of no blood.
Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th Prophet of the last dispensation wrote:In both of these kingdoms [i.e., the terrestrial and telestial] there will be changes in the bodies and limitations. They will not have the power of increase, neither the power or nature to live as husbands and wives, for this will be denied them and they cannot increase. Those who receive the exaltation in the celestial kingdom will have the “continuation of the seeds forever.” They will live in the family relationship. In the terrestrial and in the telestial kingdoms there will be no marriage. Those who enter there will remain “separately and singly” forever. Some of the functions in the celestial body will not appear in the terrestrial body, neither in the telestial body, and the power of procreation will be removed. I take it that men and women will, in these kingdoms, be just what the so-called Christian world expects us all to be – neither man nor woman, merely immortal beings having received the resurrection.
bcspace wrote:Don't think you can reasonably come to the conclusion that there is nothing that can (or that spirit can't) firm the flesh. For example, when the resurrected Christ appeared to the disciples on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24:13-15. No mention of some scary looking creature whose flesh clung to his bones. So if spirit can keep the flesh looking firm, then there is no reason to think the sexual function is inoperative on the basis of no blood.
Spiritual formaldehyde, or perhaps celestial Plastination. Gunther von Hagens does the work of the Lord.
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."