Celestial, Terrestrial, and Telestial Glory:

[inquiringmind]

So even though my condition changes (first I had no body, then a mortal body, then an immortal body), that changed condition (which had a beginning) is permenant?

Doesn't that mean that it's possible for something that had a beginning to have no end?

[TAO]

So even though my condition changes (first I had no body, then a mortal body, then an immortal body), that changed condition (which had a beginning) is permenant?

Doesn't that mean that it's possible for something that had a beginning to have no end?

Yes and no. I think HF chooses not to end... but not sure... a rather obscure topic =P.

[WalkerW]

On another occasion, the Prophet observed,

[inquiringmind]

I think I'm starting to see (thank you WalkerW.)

[zerinus]

But that's my question.

If I pass my probation here, and I'm resurrected in a body of flesh and bone, didn't that tabernaccle have a beginning?

Does that mean it must have an end?

If God wasn't alwayd God, He became God.

His Goodhood had a beginning.

Must it have an end?

I just don't see how it can be true that anything that had a beginning must have an end.

Is it official church doctrine?

What Joseph Smith wanted to explain by that analogy was the eternal nature of the human spirit. In traditional Christian theology it is taught that God made everything, including us, out of nothing. Joseph Smith was trying to explain that the human spirit, or at least some essential aspect of it, was not created at all, not even by God, but has always existed, and is

[Magyar]

Fascinating, because in my study right now of D.C. 38, I am intrigued by the introductory reference to the host of heaven, which is followed up a few verses later by a reference again to that host and a theme of judgment upon the earth. Seems to be linked to this same theme.