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SoonerCoug · 04-17-2008, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Indy Coug

If you need to have an eternal spouse in order to be exalted and there aren't exactly the same number of male and female exaltation-worthy beings, what is the solution sans polygamy?

I think assuming that more women will be exaltation-worthy is a bad assumption.

Why would you assume that?

I don't believe that one gender is morally superior to the other.

Indy Coug · 04-17-2008, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by SoonerCoug

I think assuming that more women will be exaltation-worthy is a bad assumption.

Why would you assume that?

I don't believe that one gender is morally superior to the other.

I think it's a bad assumption to think that there will be 1,203,303,404 exaltation-worthy males and 1,203,303,404 exaltation-worthy females. There will be an imbalance in one direction or the other; hence the need for plural marriage. Do you believe there will be exactly the same number of each sex in the celestial kingdom?

Gifted Fish · 04-17-2008, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Indy Coug

If you need to have an eternal spouse in order to be exalted and there aren't exactly the same number of male and female exaltation-worthy beings, what is the solution sans polygamy?

An exalted female with god-like powers (i.e., omnipotence) should have the ability to create an exaltation-worthy companion for herself. Otherwise, her reward for being faithful and playing by the rules is to share a spouse with others?

Indy Coug · 04-17-2008, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Gifted Fish

An exalted female with god-like powers (i.e., omnipotence) should have the ability to create an exaltation-worthy companion for herself.

Are you equating creation with producing something out of nothingness?

UtahDan · 04-17-2008, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by SoonerCoug

How many of you believe there will be polygamy in the Celestial Kingdom?

The only answer for othrodox LDS is yes.

DevilCoug · 04-17-2008, 06:20 PM

If consenting adults want to practice polygamy in the CK, more power to them. It is heaven afterall and if all parties want to get a little freak on, I say let 'em. However, I do not believe that polygamy is a requirement for entry into the CK.

Indy Coug · 04-17-2008, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by DevilCoug

If consenting adults want to practice polygamy in the CK, more power to them. It is heaven afterall and if all parties want to get a little freak on, I say let 'em. However, I do not believe that polygamy is a requirement for entry into the CK.

The only way that polygamy could possibly be a requirement for the CK is

1. There is greater than a 2:1 ratio of one sex over another

and/or

2. There is spouse sharing/swapping

I've heard nothing that would indicate either does or will exist. A willingness to practice polygamy probably is a requirement, even if there's a chance you may not actually be required to practice it.

Spaz · 04-17-2008, 06:31 PM

The fact that temple sealings of men to multiple women exists (even today, in the case of deceased spouses) seems to me to suggest that there will be.

I'm not opposed to the proposition of a 'figuring-out' by God in the end, and that polygamy won't be practiced thereafter.

Spaz · 04-17-2008, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Gifted Fish

An exalted female with god-like powers (i.e., omnipotence) should have the ability to create an exaltation-worthy companion for herself. Otherwise, her reward for being faithful and playing by the rules is to share a spouse with others?

You are assuming your personal moral values translate perfectly into the next life, which is arrogance at it's finest.

It's highly possible that 'sharing one's spouse' won't have the same connotations in the CK as it does in this life.

SoCalCoug · 04-17-2008, 07:13 PM

I am currently sealed to two living women.

So there.

One will certainly make the celestial kingdom before I do. The other, I certainly hope doesn't make it.

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04-17-2008, 06:20 PM	#16
DevilCoug Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 8	Plygs in the CK If consenting adults want to practice polygamy in the CK, more power to them. It is heaven afterall and if all parties want to get a little freak on, I say let 'em. However, I do not believe that polygamy is a requirement for entry into the CK.

04-17-2008, 06:31 PM	#18
Spaz Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,371	The fact that temple sealings of men to multiple women exists (even today, in the case of deceased spouses) seems to me to suggest that there will be. I'm not opposed to the proposition of a 'figuring-out' by God in the end, and that polygamy won't be practiced thereafter. __________________ "My days of not respecting you are certainly coming to a middle." -Malcolm Reynolds "It doesn't mean that if we lose a game or when we lose a game people won't then jump on and say the quest is over. Because they will. But they've missed the point." -Bronco Mendenhall on "The Quest"

04-17-2008, 07:13 PM	#20
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	I am currently sealed to two living women. So there. One will certainly make the celestial kingdom before I do. The other, I certainly hope doesn't make it. __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug