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Originally Posted by Quisqueyano
Because LDS have a 3 degrees of glory view, I think it can. Other faiths that believe in one heaven and one hell have only those 2 boxes to put people in. JS said that if people could see the glory of the telestial they would commit suicide in droves to get there. (or something along those lines). That doesn't sound like the protestant/catholic view of hell.
To get to the telestial kingdom, we must me "saved" from a physical death through Christs grace, and "saved" from the spiritual death (being totally cut off from God and his Son) through grace. I think we are only totally cut off in outer darkness.
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First of all, it was Brigham Young who supposedly said that, not Joseph Smith. Second, Brigham Young did NOT say that.
The heaven/hell idea is essentially our Spirit Paradise/Prison concept. Our theology doesn't accept the immediate, post-death state to be our final destination.