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Researcher Brian D. Birch has called the LDS Church views on salvation "soft universalism", because although the vast majority will be saved, a few will not. Also, the LDS Church doctrine makes a distinction between salvation from sin and exaltation, which is attaining the highest heaven and progressing eternally into godhood. [6]
In the Book of Mormon the prophet Amulek teaches that the "great and last sacrifice will be the Son of God, yea, infinite and eternal. And thus he shall bring salvation to all those who shall believe on his name" [web 39] There are two parts of salvation, conditional and unconditional. Unconditional salvation means that the atonement of Jesus ...
[98] [99] [100] Exaltation is considered by the Church to be the "greatest gift of God" and is also called "salvation" or "eternal life". [a] [13] [101] Exaltation consists of "the kind of life God lives". [101] In other words, exalted beings will live in great glory, be perfect, and possess all knowledge and wisdom. [101]
[14] [16] Slightly before the Lordship salvation controversy, Everett F. Harrison opposed the view that one must make Christ "Lord of your life" and make a commitment to follow Jesus in order to be justified. Harrison held a debate with John Stott on the issue in 1959, mirroring the Lordship salvation controversy. [20] Zane C. Hodges
John 3:16—"“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." This clearly shows that only those who believe in Jesus will receive eternal life, which essentially limits the atonement to those who belief.
According to Mormon theology, God the Father is a physical being of "flesh and bones." [9] Mormons identify him as the biblical god Elohim.Latter-day Saint leaders have also taught that God the Father was once a mortal man who has completed the process of becoming an exalted being. [16]
The Current Debate, and of a 2010 book, All Shall Be Well, which reviews the doctrine of universal salvation from Origen to Moltmann. On May 17, 2007, the Christian Universalist Association was founded at the historic Universalist National Memorial Church in Washington, DC . [ 49 ]
[14] Since 2019, the LDS church's theme for its Young Women's program says: "I am a beloved daughter of Heavenly Parents, with a divine nature and eternal destiny." [15] The LDS Church teaches that humanity's Heavenly Parents want Their children to be like Them, and that through the process of exaltation all humans have the potential to live ...