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Is there a Board of Directors in Heaven? Does our Mother(s) in Heaven have any significance, status or position in Heaven? We know Mary mother of Jesus is important in Catholicism but does she command the same attention in Heaven?

We know God will not condone anyone denying the existence of the Holy Ghost without serious consequences, but the punishment for denying Jesus or God is minor. Does the Holy Ghost have a Golden Parchute that includes a physical body when his job is done?

Who is in charge of PR or Marketing? Their doing a terrible job!

The reason why denying the Holy Ghost is so dangerous is because without him, there would be no way to tell whether God existed or not in the first place. That's why so much weight is put on denying it when you have a knowledge he exists.

Is there a Board of Directors in Heaven? Does our Mother(s) in Heaven have any significance, status or position in Heaven? We know Mary mother of Jesus is important in Catholicism but does she command the same attention in Heaven?

Do you mean that if she doesn't get to tell people what to do or is not able to impose her will in the typical passive/aggressive manner used by many of the imperfect women of this world that she cannot have achieved a fullness of joy like Jesus Christ? I'm sorry but I just don't think my Heavanly Mother would be like that at all and I doubt She cares to serve on any board of directors. I don't think power and being able to impose your will upon other people is the key to happiness in heavan like it is here on earth. I do not think She has desires left unfullfilled. I think She would be of one heart and one mind with Heavanly Father, Jesus Christ, and every other Goddess that Heavanly Father is married to. And I think She is perfectly intelligent enough to see the truth in Heavanly Father's plan of Happiness. And while I think She would have had no trouble at all coming up with the plan Herself, I don't see Her having the need to be the one who did as earthly women have. I'm sure She is more concerned with what is right rather than who is right.

I respect the difficulty that females may be presented with on this issue. As males we did get to see what the perfect man was and get insight into what He would do. We haven't been privileged to see the perfect female. But I think my interpretation of the perfect female is in line with what we know about Gods in general, using Jesus as the standard.

Who is in charge of PR or Marketing? Their doing a terrible job!

You know I think the same thing, but probably for different reasons than you do. It just goes to show you cannot please everyone. The skewed and imperfect people of this world can never be of one heart and one mind. I'm sure if we saw people of one heart and one mind, many of these seeming contradictions would evaporate, but it's like trying to understand the fifth and sixth dimensions that we know must exist mathematically but are impossible for us to understand because we cannot experience them right now.

From a non-LDS perspective is God neither male or female?

TAO wrote:The reason why denying the Holy Ghost is so dangerous is because without him, there would be no way to tell whether God existed or not in the first place. That's why so much weight is put on denying it when you have a knowledge he exists.

And without confirmation bias and reading way too much into mundane emotional responses, we wouldn't know the Holy Ghost existed either!

There will be no marketing department in heaven, but I do hope the workers in distribution have completed their in-service training. I understand Mormons get to skip the proctological exam on intake.

Wisdom Seeker wrote:From a non-LDS perspective is God neither male or female?

As another strange off tangent of this, I've talked to some people lately about the belief that the essence of being (spirit, soul, what have you) as being genderless. So your gender identity/gender specific roles, etc. are tied only to your physical body, not to the core of who you are as a person.

Wisdom Seeker wrote:From a non-LDS perspective is God neither male or female?

These quotes are representative, I believe, of the traditional Christian view (keeping in mind that God the Son, Jesus, is male in the sense of his human person). Of course, from a LDS point of view, all of this would just illustrate the corruption of gospel truths by Greek philosophical ideas.

Apology of Aristides (circa 125 A.D.):

‘I say, then, that God is not born, not made, an ever-abiding nature without beginning and without end, immortal, perfect, and incomprehensible … He has no name, for everything which has a name is kindred to things created. Form he has none, nor yet any union of members; for whatsoever possesses these is kindred to things fashioned. He is neither male nor female. The heavens do not limit him, but the heavens and all things, visible and invisible, receive their bounds from him.’

God and the World (book length Interview with Pope Benedict):

Is God male or female?

‘God is God. He is neither male nor female but over and beyond those he is God. He is the Wholly Other. I believe that it is important always to remember that for biblical belief it has always been perfectly clear that God is neither male nor female, but is, precisely, God, and that both man and woman are in his image. They are both derived from him and their potentiality is in both cases contained within him.’

Catechism of the Catholic Church:

‘Since our knowledge of God is limited, our language about him is equally so. We can name God only by taking creatures as our starting point, and in accordance with our limited human ways of knowing and thinking.

God transcends all creatures. We must therefore continually purify our language of everything in it that is limited, image-bound or imperfect, if we are not to confuse our image of God—"the inexpressible, the incomprehensible, the invisible, the ungraspable"—with our human representations. Our human words always fall short of the mystery of God.’