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  1. Another qoute from askgramps QUESTION Gramps, What are your thoughts about what allows a person to go from spirit prison to paradise? Does it require an ordinance like baptism or is it based only on the person’s accepting the atonement? ANSWER The scriptures tell us that it is faith in Christ (and His atonement) that frees us from the shackles of sin and despair in mortality. I see no reason for it to be any different in the spirit world. Baptism is necessary to enter the Kingdom of God in both places but I think that Spirit Paradise, while nice, isn’t the Kingdom of God. I think it the place were the righteous have gathered as they wait and work. Alma’s experience when he converts also appears to run along these lines: (Alma 36:18-20) 18 Now, as my mind caught hold upon this thought, I cried within my heart: O Jesus, thou Son of God, have mercy on me, who am in the gall of bitterness, and am encircled about by the everlasting chains of death. 19 And now, behold, when I thought this, I could remember my pains no more; yea, I was harrowed up by the memory of my sins no more. 20 And oh, what joy, and what marvelous light I did behold; yea, my soul was filled with joy as exceeding as was my pain! Now is is likely that Alma had already been baptized before this happened. If not, then it seems logical that he would have quickly sought it out. I see no reason for the same to not be happening in the spirit world. When a spirit uses faith to break the chains of sin and if an authoritative baptism awaits them, they would quickly accept it and move forward. If one does not, then getting one would become their focus. They would be forced to wait patiently on the Lord until it happens.
  2. Is baptism and confirmation in our temples sufficient to allow spirits in spirit prison to enter paradise in the spirit world? Someone in priesthood today was telling us that in order to cross the gulf into paradise that all of their temple ordinances must be completed, including their endowment and sealing. Ken Based on these scriptures, it would appear that the righteous would be received to spirit paradise. The paradise of God must deliver up the spirits of the righteous, 2 Ne. 9:13 The spirits of the righteous are received into a state of happiness, which is called paradise, Alma 40:11–12 Christ ministered to the righteous spirits in paradise, D&C 138 Under the same logic of the Priesthood lesson you received, would Mother Teresa be sent to spirit prison? I wouldn’t think so......quote from askgramps.org