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Here's a question for my Mormon friends, @Mormonger @Trooper_Brown @mdaviscpa. Take a man, let's say Jack, and a woman, named Jill, who are both faithful members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They are sealed to each other in the temple. They attend the...
...church every week, go to the temple regularly, magnify their callings, fast monthly, pray daily, never drink alcohol, never drink coffee, never touch any illicit drugs, pay 10% of their income to the church, donate generously with fast offerings, raise their children well...
...teaching them all the principles of the gospel, don't swear, always wear their garments, follow the counsel of the prophet, etc, etc. They do everything. They live good, wholesome, faithful lives keeping their covenants. They do every single thing the Lord...
...has required of them. They are obedient and die with their testimony of the gospel burning in their hearts. Per the doctrine of the church both Jack & Jill merit exaltation in the next life, correct? But what is the respective final position for Jack and Jill? What does the...
...next life entail for each of them individually? Jack, as a son of God, will be exalted to receive his next estate and will eventually have dominion over a planet of his own creation, through the power of the priesthood, correct? He will essentially become God of his own...
...planet, correct? That is true per the doctrine that Joseph Smith and all subsequent prophets of God have revealed, correct? So what is the final state for Jill? For Jack to receive exaltation & have eternal increase in having many spirit children of his own he must be...
...sealed to many other righteous women like Jill. We don't know how many women he must marry, but it could be 10, 100, or 1000. We don't know, do we? We do know that Jack & Jill must accept plural marriage to be fully exalted, however. Plural marriage has been secretly, then...
...openly, then discontinued, then practiced secretly again, but then formally discontinued for good save for in temple ordinances wherein a man may be sealed to more than one wife, as long as only one of the wives is living. However, a woman may never be sealed to more...
...one man. So...back to the question of Jill's life as an exalted polygamous queen in the next life. Is she an equal to Jack, God of the new planet? Will she have any duties or responsibilities wherein she has autonomy? Will she have to get authorization from Jack on each...
...decision? Will she need to return & report to Jack on all things? Will her spirit children know of her existence? Will she be mentioned in scripture? Will her righteousness, virtue, & love be known by any? Or will she simply bear spirit children in succession? So compare...
...the final positions of Jack & Jill within the doctrine of Mormonism. You may argue that those final positions simply are what they are, that they were ordained to be that way by immutable truths of nature. But if you can't see a patriarchal order of hierarchy where power...
...& position always end up, like the water trickling down the mountain, to a single man, an order where equality is a farce, and laughably so, then I would say that you have never considered "the plan of happiness" thoroughly enough.
