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Date: January 13, 2017 11:51PM
"I remember reading somewhere that if you are offered the gospel in this life and reject it, even if you accept it in the spirit world you couldn't obtain the highest. She was like I don't know where you get that! From your own freaking religion!!!"
This is known as the "Second Chance Theory" – as in, there's no second chance.
Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, Vol. 2, pp. 182-83:
"Those who have the opportunity here, those unto whom the message of salvation is declared, who are taught and who have this truth presented to them in this life – yet who deny it and refuse to receive it – shall not have a place in the kingdom of God. They will not be with those who died without that knowledge and who yet accepted it in the spirit world…
"SECOND CHANCE LEADS TO TERRESTRIAL KINGDOM. Moreover, we learn that those who rejected the gospel when it was offered them in ancient times, but afterwards accepted the 'testimony of Jesus' in the spirit world when it was declared to them, and who were honorable men of the earth, are assigned to the terrestrial glory, not the celestial."
Bruce R. McConkie:
"There is no such thing as a second chance to gain salvation. This life is the time and day of our probation. After this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, then cometh the night of darkness where there can be no labor performed… Those who reject the gospel in this life and then receive it in the spirit world go not to the celestial, but to the terrestrial kingdom." ("The Seven Deadly Heresies," BYU Speeches of the Year, 1980)
Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, pp. 685-87, SECOND CHANCE THEORY:
"There is no such thing as a second chance to gain salvation by accepting the gospel in the spirit world after spurning, declining, or refusing to accept it in this life. It is true that there may be a second chance to hear and accept the gospel, but those who have thus procrastinated their acceptance of the saving truths will not gain salvation in the celestial kingdom of God…
Those who have a fair and just opportunity to accept the gospel in this life and who do not do it, but who then do accept it when they hear it in the spirit world will go not to the celestial, but to the terrestrial kingdom… Thus the false and heretical doctrine that people who fail to live the law in this life (having had an opportunity so to do) will have a further chance of salvation in the life to come is a soul-destroying doctrine, a doctrine that lulls its adherents into carnal security and thereby denies them a hope of eternal salvation."
Bruce R. McConkie, Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, Vol. 1, pp. 480-81:
"There is a time appointed for the performance of every righteous work. Time lost can never be recaptured; it is gone forever. Perhaps the most awesome illustration of this principle is the doctrine which denies men a second chance to gain celestial salvation. Of those who have opportunity to believe and obey the gospel in this life and who neglect or refuse to do so, Amulek said: 'After this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed.'" (Alma 34:33.)
Bruce R. McConkie, Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, Vol. 2, p. 407:
"…Paul wove in sufficient doctrinal data to leave modern readers with a great sense of thanksgiving for the epistle [2 Corinthians]. In it we read, among other things… that there is no second chance for salvation for the saints…"
[As for Outer Darkness, we're all safe, even Tom Phillips. Second Anointing isn't sufficient. The "heavens have to be opened." No less than SWK admitted as much.]
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 358:
"What must a man do to commit the unpardonable sin? He must receive the Holy Ghost, have the heavens opened unto him, and know God, and then sin against Him. After a man has sinned against the Holy Ghost, there is no repentance for him. He has got to say that the sun does not shine while he sees it; he has got to deny Jesus Christ when the heavens have been opened unto him, and to deny the plan of salvation with his eyes open to the truth of it; and from that time he begins to be an enemy."
Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, p. 123:
"The sin against the Holy Ghost requires such knowledge that it is manifestly impossible for the rank and file to commit such a sin."