Great…Thank you…I will look forward to reading it.

Anonymous, thank you for your question. We are preparing an article on this topic.

Do LDS members believe that they will become gods of their own planets in the afterlife?

Whoops – the url for the link in my previous comment is now wrong. The correct link is What do Mormons believe?

On my blog entry What do Mormons believe?
someone asked me this question:
“Do Mormons really believe that if they lead a good life, they’ll become gods of their own planets?”

I did my best to answer it:
http://www.clintrogersonline.com/blog/2008/04/14/what-do-mormons-believe/#comments
but I’m curious if you would have anything to add to my comments?

Thanks, Jan, for your additional references! Let me quote a portion of what Alma says: “Now this is the state of the souls of the wicked, yea, in darkness, and a state of awful, fearful looking for the fiery indignation of the wrath of God upon them; thus they remain in this state, as well as the righteous in paradise, until the time of their resurrection.” (Alma 40:14; italics added.)

profxm, I believe that the moral, upstanding people will be in Spirit paradise very quickly. The way to get there is to covenant with God, through the ordinances that He has authorized, that you will follow Him and keep His commandments. They will be seeking the opportunity to do so and it will be easy. Don’t worry about them–God loves them more than you or I do.

As far as the evidence, that is one of the COOLEST parts of the restoration of the gospel in our time. The Book of Mormon talks about it in Alma 41. Joseph F. Smith also had a vision about it in 1918 and it is included in the Doctrine and Covenants, section 138.

I referenced a few scriptures in my article that refer to the spirit world. Both 1 Peter 3:18-20 and 1 Peter 4:6 provide an explanation as to where Christ was before his resurrection. Hence the Savior telling Mary “touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father” (John 20:17).

profxm –

You’re right; non-Mormons will go to spirit “prison”, however, remember that this is a temporary state, not permanent judgment. Part 2 of this article is on its way wherein I’ll discuss the three degrees of glory. The spirit world is where spirits await their resurrection. I hope that clarifies this a little bit for you.

Heavenly Father has given us this plan of Happiness in order to give us all the opportunity to return to live with him. If it all boiled down to Heaven and Hell, there would be a lot of unanswered questions, this is his work and his glory, “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man” isn’t it great that he knows what he is doing and we can trust him?