Excommunication in the spirit world.

[circusboy01]

After you've passed on and you are in the spirit world/prison, can you still be excommunicated?

If so I don't imagine we would be excommunicated for our actions. Because we can't really do much. Which is why we need proxies, for baptism, endowments and eealings.*

But. What about thoughts, that would be actions, if we were able?

I think the answer is no. But still, I'm curiious. Brother Ray

* My Tiny spell, says I spelled sealings wrong. How else would you spell it?

[Vort]

"ceilings"

[skippy740]

You spelled "sealings" with 2 e's instead of with an 's'.

[Dravin]

Random thought: If the Temple ever did drive-through sealings we'd be so very close to something mistakenly thinking about weaponized Pinnipeds

[NightSG]

Wait...could I get excommunicated as a proxy for someone?

[circusboy01]

"ceilings"

Wait a minute? It's not ceilings, like the tops of rooms. It's sealings like to be sealed together.

Wait. I get it. I asked how else would you spell sealings, and ceilings is another way. You gave me exactly what I asked for ;0) Brother Ray

[circusboy01]

You spelled "sealings" with 2 e's instead of with an 's'.

I saw the mistake you pointed out. But spelling it correctly sealings still gets the red line.

sealing doesn't get the red line, only sealings I wonder if it means that sealing is both singular

and plural, like deer? Brother Ray

[circusboy01]

Random thought: If the Temple ever did drive-through sealings we'd be so very close to something mistakenly thinking about weaponized Pinnipeds

Huh? to the whole post. But especially huh to Pinnipeds. What are they? I'm probably the only one on the forum that has to ask Brother Ray

[Vort]

I saw the mistake you pointed out. But spelling it correctly sealings still gets the red line.

sealing doesn't get the red line, only sealings I wonder if it means that sealing is both singular

and plural, like deer? Brother Ray

To answer seriously (oh, the pain!):

I expect the word-check dictionary recognizes the word "sealing" only as the gerund form of the verb "to seal", as in, "I am outside sealing my deck." It does not recognize "sealing" as a singular noun, which of course it is (though not very commonly used outside of Mormonism). So it sees the plural form "sealings" and says, "No, that is not right; gerunds don't end with 'ings', only with 'ing', so it must be wrong." So it underlines the word.

[circusboy01]

Wait...could I get excommunicated as a proxy for someone?

I thought of that too. Doesn't seem too feasible. Does it? Besides. If someone was to commit an excommunicatable sin in the Spirit world/ prison All Heavenly Father would need to do would be to reroute their final destination ;-) Brother Ray

[Dravin]

Huh? to the whole post. But especially huh to Pinnipeds. What are they? I'm probably the only one on the forum that has to ask Brother Ray

https://www.google.com/search?q=pinniped

[NightSG]

I thought of that too. Doesn't seem too feasible. Does it?

Especially if they have the option to refuse it.

[NightSG]

You spelled "sealings" with 2 e's instead of with an 's'.

No, he misspelled eelings with an extra a.

It's sort of like a baptism, but with a little something extra in the font.

[georgia2]

people won't be excommunicated in the spirit world because you are so much more aware of the things we can't be aware of here that if anyone changes it is for the better. somewhere, sometime, someone said if you are on the gospel path when you die, you WILL NOT get off !!!

[Convert55]

Bruice R McConkie:

Everyone in the Church who is on the straight and narrow path, who is striving and struggling and desiring to do what is right, though is far from perfect in this life; if he passes out of this life while he's on the straight and narrow, he's going to go on to eternal reward in his Father's kingdom.

("The Probationary Test of Mortality," Address given at Univ. of Utah, Jan. 10, 1982, p. 11; See JD 1:6)

[circusboy01]

To answer seriously (oh, the pain!):

I expect the word-check dictionary recognizes the word "sealing" only as the gerund form of the verb "to seal", as in, "I am outside sealing my deck." It does not recognize "sealing" as a singular noun, which of course it is (though not very commonly used outside of Mormonism). So it sees the plural form "sealings" and says, "No, that is not right; gerunds don't end with 'ings', only with 'ing', so it must be wrong." So it underlines the word.

You're right. I don't think I've ever heard the word sealings used outside of the church.

Thanks Vort. Is there anything you don't know? ;0) Brother Ray.

[circusboy01]

https://www.google.com/search?q=pinniped[/QUOte

weaponized Pinnipeds = Navy Seals Brother Ray.

[circusboy01]

Bruice R McConkie:

("The Probationary Test of Mortality," Address given at Univ. of Utah, Jan. 10, 1982, p. 11; See JD 1:6)

I knew there was a reason I liked that Bruce R. McConkie guy. :) Brother Ray

[NightSG]

You're right. I don't think I've ever heard the word sealings used outside of the church.

Still gerund-as-noun is common enough that a grammar checker should recognize it even when plural. Think "beatings," "ratings," etc.

I know that specifically I've seen "sealings" used as a plural noun in road maintenance paperwork, referring to separate applications of seal coats. At any rate, a simple right-click and "add to dictionary" fixed it here.

[circusboy01]

Still gerund-as-noun is common enough that a grammar checker should recognize it even when plural. Think "beatings," "ratings," etc.

I know that specifically I've seen "sealings" used as a plural noun in road maintenance paperwork, referring to separate applications of seal coats. At any rate, a simple right-click and "add to dictionary" fixed it here.

I should have known that. In 1970 I spent 6 months in county jail, in Ocala Fla. On a road crew. We filled pot holes and sealed cracks. No joke Brother Ray

[Atlantis]

Though earth is a probationary state, "acting" is not limited to this state of life for we will still do much after death. Remember the same sociality which exists here will still after death and Alma says all things will be restored to their proper order, corruption to corruption and so forth. Which means if I will be who I am currently, in the the spirit world, then I will still be capable of sin and righteousness as spirit because we take who we are there not our bodies. Proxy is proxy because of body where it not so baptisms would be performed in spirit world. The one sin I'm sure we cant commit in spirit world in is murder since spirit in eternal so how to kill it is a tough one.

[NightSG]

The one sin I'm sure we cant commit in spirit world in is murder since spirit in eternal so how to kill it is a tough one.

I've had some lit & comp classes that were pretty spirit-crushing.

[Martain]

After you've passed on and you are in the spirit world/prison, can you still be excommunicated?

Why do you ask the question you ask and why is the answer important for you to understand?

While not a complete treatise on the subject, see D&C 132 and verse 19 specifically.

[NightSG]

Why do you ask the question you ask and why is the answer important for you to understand?

Maybe there's somebody there he really wants to kill and/or commit adultery with when he gets there.

[circusboy01]

Why do you ask the question you ask and why is the answer important for you to understand?

While not a complete treatise on the subject, see D&C 132 and verse 19 specifically.

No special reason really. Sometimes I wonder if, I wonder what, or I wonder why questions just pop into my head. It has nothing to do with thinking someone died that should have been Excommunicated or anything like that.

Thanks for the reference to the scriptures. I'm going to look them up now. Brother Ray

Thank you for leading me to D&C 132. It brought to mind a couple more I wonder thoughts.

Edited August 13, 2012 by circusboy01