Posted by:
elderolddog
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Date: July 20, 2019 05:28PM
Hola and welcome, Never Mo!
It seems that mormonism wanted some of that "once saved - always saved" magic, so we came up with The Second Anointing, which guarantees ghawdhood!
It also goes one better than all the other religions, as evidenced from this record of an early Second Anointing:
"...And thou shalt have power to redeem thy progenitors, and thou shalt have power over thy posterity and shall save all of them and bring them into thy kingdom."
http://www.ldsendowment.org/kimball.htmlSo once you get the 2nd 'nointing, you can rescue your progenitors, along with your posterity.
But the question arises... How many generations in each direction can be dragged up to heaven? You can save your parents, that's 2, their parents, that's 4 more, then 8 more, then 16 more... See where I'm going with that? When you reach back to the 25th earlier generation, that's 45,661,632 human beings...for that generation. The total number of 'saved' people, counting you and your spouse (married couples only!) and back 25 generations, is 299,623,162.
And your progeny!! In 25 generations, depending on fecundity, you could get into the billions, even trillions, in 25 generations, because for every descendant you save, you have to add his or her spouse. Everybody gets to bring a spouse! But which one?
Yeah, Joseph Smith had it all planned out.