Anti-Mormons in the pre-existence (another problem)
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:16 am
Here's another one. This one has an answer though. It is hard. But because it has a clear answer, and is not a philosophical question, it's substantially easier than the other problem. I'm again transforming the problem so as to make googling the answer more difficult. However, after satisfying myself I had the answer -- and this was a few years ago or so -- the websites I read solutions from didn't explain it fully. At least to my understand, which could be wrong. Again, if you know the real riddle this is derived from etc., PM me if you could instead of letting the cat out of the bag.
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We were all living in heaven as spirit children of a superficially loving, but deeply passive-aggressive Heavenly Father. He had a plan for us, some might have called it a mind game. He realized that a thousand of his children were so smart -- yea, even perfected logicians -- that they'd never willingly buy into his plan of salvation, so he decided to make those the antagonists of his game and spirit-brand them anti-Mormons. He put an "A" on their foreheads. None of them, of course, knew they'd been branded. They could see the brands on each other, but not themselves. And since ghosts don't have reflections, they'd be out of luck from ever empirically discovering the truth about who they were.
They all read from the spirit books about God's laws and plans and met together in their spiritual school every day. They knew that they could not ever, under any circumstances communicate about the branding in any way. Not a word. In fact, what they read in the books was simple, IF there should ever be a spirit with a branded spirit "A" on his spirit head, then the next day, that spirit will leave the pre-existence and depart for earth as a devil.
Heavenly Father had decided his plan called for someone to stir up trouble, and those 1000 could do so by speaking reason and truth, or in other words, anti-Mormonism to men in the flesh. The rest, who would not so readily grasp the truth, he could bank on accepting his plan on blind faith. But first, he'd make them all sweat, and in a twist of irony, let the smart ones condemn themselves.
For eons, God really had fun rubbing his hands together and watching all of his children worry. They'd meet for school and each one would clearly see every other one. They all saw 999 marked foreheads everyday, most saw 1000. They all knew the very real possibility that they could in fact bear the mark themselves. But since those 1000 had no idea who they were, they stewed along with all the rest, and never condemned themselves to banishment.
When the time was right, Jesus walked into the midst of the spirit school and said, loud enough for everyone to hear and raising his arm to the square, "Verily, I say unto you, there are anti-Mormons amongst us who wear the mark of shame. Dismiss thyselves from the presence of the Father." Surely, the righteous and faithful were thinking, "What?? Everyone already knows there are anti-Mormons among us, we see the brands, hundreds of them, every day! And everyone already knows, every single last one, that if they come to know they are branded, that they must leave the very next day!" Yet to the amazement of these true and noble ones, and to the confirmation of their testimonies, God's mysterious ways prevailed, and exactly 1000 days later, every single evil spirit, all 1000 who wore the mark of anti-Mormon shame departed their heavenly home together and hurled themselves towards earth as the demonic antagonists of men.
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We were all living in heaven as spirit children of a superficially loving, but deeply passive-aggressive Heavenly Father. He had a plan for us, some might have called it a mind game. He realized that a thousand of his children were so smart -- yea, even perfected logicians -- that they'd never willingly buy into his plan of salvation, so he decided to make those the antagonists of his game and spirit-brand them anti-Mormons. He put an "A" on their foreheads. None of them, of course, knew they'd been branded. They could see the brands on each other, but not themselves. And since ghosts don't have reflections, they'd be out of luck from ever empirically discovering the truth about who they were.
They all read from the spirit books about God's laws and plans and met together in their spiritual school every day. They knew that they could not ever, under any circumstances communicate about the branding in any way. Not a word. In fact, what they read in the books was simple, IF there should ever be a spirit with a branded spirit "A" on his spirit head, then the next day, that spirit will leave the pre-existence and depart for earth as a devil.
Heavenly Father had decided his plan called for someone to stir up trouble, and those 1000 could do so by speaking reason and truth, or in other words, anti-Mormonism to men in the flesh. The rest, who would not so readily grasp the truth, he could bank on accepting his plan on blind faith. But first, he'd make them all sweat, and in a twist of irony, let the smart ones condemn themselves.
For eons, God really had fun rubbing his hands together and watching all of his children worry. They'd meet for school and each one would clearly see every other one. They all saw 999 marked foreheads everyday, most saw 1000. They all knew the very real possibility that they could in fact bear the mark themselves. But since those 1000 had no idea who they were, they stewed along with all the rest, and never condemned themselves to banishment.
When the time was right, Jesus walked into the midst of the spirit school and said, loud enough for everyone to hear and raising his arm to the square, "Verily, I say unto you, there are anti-Mormons amongst us who wear the mark of shame. Dismiss thyselves from the presence of the Father." Surely, the righteous and faithful were thinking, "What?? Everyone already knows there are anti-Mormons among us, we see the brands, hundreds of them, every day! And everyone already knows, every single last one, that if they come to know they are branded, that they must leave the very next day!" Yet to the amazement of these true and noble ones, and to the confirmation of their testimonies, God's mysterious ways prevailed, and exactly 1000 days later, every single evil spirit, all 1000 who wore the mark of anti-Mormon shame departed their heavenly home together and hurled themselves towards earth as the demonic antagonists of men.