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snowowl
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Date: August 21, 2011 09:22PM
I don't think it was ever anticipated that the woman would say no while in heaven. However, it might be a problem in this life. Brigham Young had one view and Heber C. Kimball had another.
"Brigham Young also said, 'As no man can be perfect without the woman, so no woman can be perfect without the man to lead her, I tell you the truth as it is in the bosom of eternity; and I say so to every man upon the face of the earth: if he wishes to be saved he cannot be saved without a woman by his side.'" Times and Seasons, vol. 6, p. 955, April 6, 1845.
"However, President Heber C. Kimball seems to contradict President Young by saying, 'Supposing that I have a wife or a dozen of them, and she should say ""you cannot be exalted with me,"" and suppose they all should say so, what of that? They never will affect my salvation one particle. Whose salvation will they affect? Their own." Journal of Discourses, vol. 4, p. 209
Kimball the says:
"In the spirit world there is an increase of males and females, there are millions of them, and if I am faithful all the time, and continue right along with brother Brigham [Young], we will go to brother Joseph [Smith] and say, 'Here we are brother Joseph; we are here ourselves are we not, with none of the property we possessed in our probationary state, not even the rings on our fingers?' He will say to us, 'Come along, my boys, we will give you a good suit of clothes. Where are your wives?' 'They are back yonder; they would not follow us.' 'Never mind' says Joseph, 'here are thousands, have all you want.'"
Journal of Discourses, vol. 4, p. 209 209
Heber C. Kimball evidently believed that he could choose as many spirit females (who had been birthed by previous exalted Mormons) as he wished, or else he believed that there would be innumerable females running around who were not married in their mortal life and were just waiting for him to show up.