Agency and Mortality

[Traveler]

On ‎3‎/‎17‎/‎2018 at 11:29 PM, wenglund said:

I can see how that may be true in terms of salvation, though I am not sure it applies to exaltation, or more particularly  and the end objective of the Plan of PROGRESSION.  

As intimated in my previous post, to me regaining in the after life what one already had in the pre-existence, doesn't strike me as progress.

In the case of the parable of the Prodigal Son, there is the noted difference between the prodigal sons reward (i.e. the fated calf, best robe, and ring) and the faithful son's reward (i.e. all that the Father has).

After all, a single man such as myself and the prodigal son, can return "home," and regain what we had prior to this life.

However, we are encouraged to get married. Indeed, the everlasting covenant of marriage is requisite for the highest degree of "home"--which marriage represents genuine progress.

Then, again, we may be speaking to two different points. You may be speaking to the minimum requirement for keeping this mortal estate, whereas I may be speaking to the greatest potential and divinely desired use of the mortal estate--returning home vs continuing the process towards creating a "home" of our own.

Thanks, -Wade Englund-  

 

Unfortunately, we have very little understanding of our pre-mortal existence.   What understanding we are given – it seems to me that our salvation (including eternal marriage) is not based just upon our physical mortal experience but is completed during the time between death and the resurrection. 

It is my personal belief that our pre-mortal experience prepared us for our mortal experience.  But then our mortal experience is also a preparation for what is to come.  I have yet to encounter any evidence that anyone’s relationships in their ancestral families was not previously established before this mortal experience.  In fact, our relationships to our ancestral family seems to have eternal importance – even more that what relationships we establish just while we are alive.

 

The Traveler