4 Questions on Spirit Prison and Alma 40

[Jason]

Don't you mean DaVinci? Picasso didn't paint the Mona Lisa.

[Mudcat]

Don't you mean DaVinci? Picasso didn't paint the Mona Lisa.

I told you it was a poor analogy. I guess Picasso was the guy who painted the Sistine Louvre.

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man that was cheesy

[consiglieri]

Don't you mean DaVinci? Picasso didn't paint the Mona Lisa.

He said it was a poor analogy!

Edited to add: Dang, missed it by one second. Is it scarey or comforting to know that Mudcat and I think so much alike?

[cdowis]

1. If it is possible to save someone in spirit prison, is it equally possible for someone to apostatize themselves in paradise? This would make sense to me, given the concept of opposition in all things.

==== No. One is not "saved" in spirit prison. Their final judgement is based on what they did on earth, and the temple ordinances only apply to those who would have accepted the gospel if it had been presented to them on earth. There is, in this sense, no change in the basic character and desires of the heart in spirit prison. There is no "post deathbed" repentence.

2.This seems a hard thing. Leaving a paradisaical state voluntarily to go to such a horrid place. Does such post mortal valiance count as a work?

===== In the same sense, there is no falling from grace for those in paradise. You cannot commit adultery, murder, etc. Your character is already set by how you lived your life in mortality.

3.Also, for those that minister to those in prison, with them being what I might term as removed much further from God's presence, if not totally removed from God's presence, visavis 'outer darkness', is the potential for them falling into apostasy increased?

======== no

4. If such preaching is considered a righteous work, could this provide an opportunity for some to make a mends for unrighteousness on earth?

==== Hell is where we pay the price for our life on earth. The answer is "maybe".

Respectfully,

Mudcat

I have not read the thread, so I am probably repeating what others have already posted. Please note, of course, that these are my own personal interpretation of LDS doctrine. I make no pretense otherwise.