Achieving Exaltation

All of this info about Exaltation is taken from the Book Gospel principles chapter 47.


What Is Exaltation?

Exaltation is eternal life, the kind of life God lives. He lives in great glory. He is perfect. He possesses all knowledge and all wisdom. He is the Father of spirit children. He is a creator. We can become like our Heavenly Father. This is exaltation.

If we prove faithful to the Lord, we will live in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom of heaven. We will become exalted, just like our Heavenly Father. Exaltation is the greatest gift that Heavenly Father can give his children (see D&C 14:7).


Under the "what is Exaltation" heading we find it teaching that God IS A Creator. This implies more than one creator or more than one god, the Bible refutes this. Look over my topic called gods

Then it says, He is the Father of spirit children. The Bible does not teach that God births Children, it does not teach He is married, Many people from Non-believers to various religions teach we are ALL children of God. Sadly this proves people do not know the Bible. The Bible very clearly teaches we are all Gods creation, but we are not all Gods Children.

Here the Bible teaches Not every one is a Child of God, some are Children of the Devil, Jesus even says, Your father the Devil.

John 8:44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:

Rom 9:8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

Gal 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

1John 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

Requirements for Exaltation

The time to fulfill the requirements for exaltation is now (see Alma 34:32-34). President Joseph Fielding Smith said, "In order to obtain the exaltation we must accept the gospel and all its covenants; and take upon us the obligations which the Lord has offered; and walk in the light and understanding of the truth; and 'live by every word that proceedeth forth from the mouth of God' " (Doctrines of Salvation, 2:43).

To be exalted, we first must place our faith in Jesus Christ and then endure in that faith to the end of our lives. Our faith in him must be such that we repent of our sins and obey his commandments.

He commands us all to receive certain ordinances:

1. We must be baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ.
2. We must receive the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
3. We must receive the temple endowment.
4. We must be married for time and eternity.

In addition to receiving the required ordinances, the Lord commands all of us to--

1. Love and worship God.
2. Love our neighbor.
3. Repent of our wrongdoings.
4. Live the law of chastity.
5. Pay honest tithes and offerings.
6. Be honest in our dealings with others and with the Lord.
7. Speak the truth always.
8. Obey the Word of Wisdom.
9. Search out our kindred dead and perform the saving ordinances of the gospel for them.
10. Keep the Sabbath day holy.
11. Attend our Church meetings as regularly as possible so we can renew our baptismal covenants by partaking of the sacrament.
12. Love our family members and strengthen them in the ways of the Lord.
13. Have family and individual prayers every day.
14. Honor our parents.
15. Teach the gospel to others by word and example.
16. Study the scriptures.
17. Listen to and obey the inspired words of the prophets of the Lord.

Finally, each of us needs to receive the Holy Ghost and learn to follow his direction in our individual lives.

Above it tells us to read Alma 34:32-34, because it claims to tell us (The time to fulfill the requirements for exaltation is now) This is what Alma says:

32 For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.

33 And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for 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.

34 Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.

This does not say one thing about how to be exaltated.

Now we shall breakdown the rest by section and ask, can you really do this.

LDS teach

Our faith in him must be such that we repent of our sins and obey his commandments.

That great and all, but lets add to that

The LDS Church manual Gospel Principles states, "To make our repentance complete we must keep the commandments of the Lord" (1992 ed., p.125).

So unless we keep the commandments of God we are not fully repentant. This is a serious problem because people on their death bed cannot be saved. And we read in the Book The miracle of forgivness

Spencer W. Kimball, the 12th President of the LDS Church, declared, "There is one crucial test of repentance. This is abandonment of the sin" (The Miracle of Forgiveness, p.163.

12th President Spencer W. Kimball said, "Christ became perfect through overcoming. Only as we overcome shall we become perfect and move toward godhood. As I have indicated previously, the time to do this is now, in mortality" (The Miracle of Forgiveness, p.210).

Repenting of only some sins never results in complete forgiveness.
Page 212 of The Miracle of Forgiveness reads, "…incomplete repentance never brought complete forgiveness" (12th President Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, p.212).

Can you really do as he teaches? I will review the rest in my next post. Rick b