Sounds like one of those nonsense Mormon Myths, or something Bruce R. Mcconkie tried to promulgate. Either way, it is of equal (non) substantive value, and probably found nowhere in any quote-unquote 'official' LDS text.
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I only heard that recently from a guy on YouTube I never heard it taught when I was in the church otherwise I probably would have left sooner that's some bullshit right there.
It's hilarious to me that old sexless people dream of copulating forever. There was a time in my youth when my libido rode me harder than Hoss ran his horse in Bonanza. A helluva burden.
As far as I'm aware, this nonsense appears only twice in all of church "literature," both times in the writings of that worthless POS Joseph Fielding Smith.
Answers to Gospel Questions, Vol. 4, pp. 66-67:
"Our own sober judgment teaches us that the Lord in his infinite wisdom and justice, would see to it that the privileges of increase or cohabitation between men and women in these kingdoms would be impossible because of peculiar conditions pertaining to these glories.
"Is not the sectarian world justified in their doctrine generally proclaimed, that after the resurrection there will be neither male or female sex? It is a logical conclusion for them to reach and apparently is in full harmony with what the Lord has revealed regarding the kingdoms into which evidently the vast majority of mankind is likely to go. However, if members of the Church are faithful and true to the covenants and commandments of the gospel, there is no reason for them to worry about the condition which will prevail in these several kingdoms."
Doctrines of Salvation, Vol. 2, pp. 287-88:
"In both of these kingdoms there will be changes in the bodies and limitations. They will not have the power of increase, neither the power or nature to live as husbands and wives, for this will be denied them and they cannot increase…
"Some of the functions in the celestial body will not appear in the terrestrial body, neither in the telestial body, and the power of procreation will be removed. I take it that men and women will, in these kingdoms, be just what the so-called Christian world expects us all to be – neither man nor woman, merely immortal beings having received the resurrection."
I don't think even McConkie was on board with this batshit idea; I've never come across anything from him endorsing or mentioning it, and the two were usually in lock-step.
But there are always TBMs for whom any random GA thought is doctrine, and so it got spread around the church like the feces of a chimpanzee.
"Some of the functions in the celestial body will not appear in the terrestrial body, neither in the telestial body, and the power of procreation will be removed."
Does that mean that we can't pee, either? I was hoping to be able to stand at the edge of my celestial cloud and pee on the universe.
I was taught this in one of my book of mormon classes at BYU in 79 or 80. The teacher's last name was Shields. He didn't say that expressly. I don't recall the context, but he said something about missing out on the CK and not being able to procreate and looked down at his crotch and shrugged. The implication was clear.
I was BIC in a TBM family, and I'd never heard of such a thing before then. I was already apostate by then. I rolled my eyes.
It depends on which version or the pre-earth life you are thinking about. Per Mormon doctrine, we were 'intelligences' before we were given 'spirit bodies'.
That topic was among the gospel mysteries and sacred mormon secrets that the current leaders in the 80s & 90s didn't talk to much about. It was "DEEP" doctorine and that we should just live the basics and not worry so much about the details.
In the early 80s I remember telling a non member friend of mine that people who didn't make it to the celestial kingdom would not have sexual organs or the anatomy to have sex if they were not in the true heaven.
My friend must of thought that was a very far out there idea. Who knows what his parents might of thought about the idea after the idea was told to them.
The afterlife topic was never spoken between us ever again...at least I can't recall if we ever discussed it again.
.....Oh, (relative to MORmONISM and human Sexuality) and It was NEVER taught that (pervert MORmON profit) Joseph Smith had ever said that an angel with a drawn flaming sword would destroy Joe IF Joe did not start up with polygamy just as MORmON Jesus had instructed Joe to do ....... Unless THE (MORmON) church finds itself with its back against the wall on the matter
Phazer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That topic was among the gospel mysteries and > sacred mormon secrets that the current leaders in > the 80s & 90s didn't talk to much about. It was > "DEEP" doctorine and that we should just live the > basics and not worry so much about the details. > > In the early 80s > I remember telling a non member friend of mine > that people who didn't make it to the celestial > kingdom would not have sexual organs or the > anatomy to have sex if they were not in the true > heaven. > > My friend must of thought that was a very far out > there idea. > Who knows what his parents might of thought about > the idea after the idea was told to them. > > The afterlife topic was never spoken between us > ever again...at least I can't recall if we ever > discussed it again.
SO much for the resurrection where no hair on one's head would be lost.... LOLOLOLOLOL....
HA! I get it. Lower kingdom - genitalia. Good one.
We lower humans figured out the blue pill, so I don't think we will have any trouble in any other world. Besides we are all suppose to be erected in perfect form, right. Can't be denied a lower kingdom if we are already guaranteed a perfect erect body.
I was exposed to this idea as a TBM. I recall it being semi-authoritative but considered indescrete. But I do recall some citation for it.
But it's not far fetched if explicit doctrine is that everyone remains unmarried in the lower kingdoms and do not have use for genitals. There is the explicit verse that blood is replaced with spirit in resurrected bodies, a precedent for physical changes.
3 levels in celestial kingdom..top one procreate.... 2nd level no organs but act as nursemaids for bubs in top level..3rd level no sex but don't know what they did.
Now that's funny I didn't know that second level are the nursemaids for the top level it's all about helping out the sex enterprise on the top floor haha.
Remember the source; those two places are equally as mythical. Joseph Smith also talked of "Zelph the White Lamanite" and an angel with a flaming sword that commanded him to take additional wives. There's a huge credibility gap for those who've learned to shed LDS indoctrination.
I recall this was an issue between myself and the bishop's daughter back when Joseph Fielding Smith--mentioned above--was LDS Church president. I have no idea whether there were other sources for this claim, but it was widespread then and now.
Per the lyrics from one of the songs from a "Saturday's Voyeur," production, that marvelous annual spoof produced by the Salt Lake Acting Company that pokes fun at all things Mormon, invariably with a new "current events twist":
"There's no erection in the Resurrection!"
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Anziano Young Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How does this jive with the Mormon teaching that > "even a hair of the head shall not be lost" > (Alma)?
With apologies to Alma that was copied some 2 thousand years ago by The Disciple Matthew in Matthew Chapter 10 verse 30 quoting Jesus that "the very hairs of your head are all numbered" in order to let the listener know how important each soul is to The Father.
That is true. But the prophets speak for God; and from Adam-God and the priesthood ban through the sealing of men as brothers, to the Family Proclamation, prophets have determined doctrine.
Conversely there are any number of things stated in the scriptures that are completely ignored and things that have been removed from the temple ceremony, including the death oaths, changes in the garment, and the prayer that God would take vengeance on the United States for the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum.
The disappearing genitalia notion is not taught now, but it was through the last editions of Doctrines of Salvation and Mormon Doctrine--giving it authority through the 1970s and probably the 1980s. That puts it on the same ground as lots of things that were once doctrine and, in some seminaries and institutes and wards, probably still are.