This was a very good explaining! Thank you very much!
Very cool with all the historical references you came with in form of big people! Again, thank you for you kindness ^^
Here comes some new questions:
Could you maybe have said a little more about which president that had the revelation about this doctrine, when it came, and how it is being practiced in the church today as a part of the everyday-life?
Norman: Hi Kristoffer, I think you are looking for this? Much of the LDS concept of godhood is expressed in a frequently cited aphorism written in 1840 by Lorenzo Snow, fifth President of the Church. At the time, Snow was twenty-six years old, having been baptized four years earlier. He recorded in his journal that he attended a meeting in which Elder H. G. Sherwood explained the parable of the Savior regarding the husbandman who hired servants and sent them forth at different hours of the day to labor for him in his vineyard. Snow continued, as recorded in his sister's biography of him: "The Spirit of the Lord rested mightily upon me-the eyes of my understanding were opened, and I saw as clear as the sun at noonday, with wonder and astonishment, the pathway of God and man. I formed the following couplet which expresses the revelation, as it was shown me…. As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be" (Eliza R. Snow, p. 46).
Godhood - The Encyclopedia of Mormonism
Could you please tell me more about how mormons think the situation on the other side would be as an exalted being? How can you be exalted, and what kind of different exaltments is there? What is the biggest kind of exaltment?
Norman: To Latter-day Saints, exaltation is a state that a person can attain in becoming like God-salvation in the ultimate sense (
D&C 132:17).
Latter-day Saints believe that all mankind (except the sons of perdition) will receive varying degrees of glory in the afterlife. Exaltation is the greatest of all the gifts and attainments possible. It is available only in the highest degree of the Celestial Kingdom and is reserved for members of the Church of the Firstborn. This exalted status, called eternal life, is available to be received by a man and wife. It means not only living in God's presence, but receiving power to do as God does, including the power to bear children after the resurrection (
TPJS, pp. 300-301;
D&C 132:19).
Blessings and privileges of exaltation require unwavering faith, repentance, and complete obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ. In a revelation to the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Savior stated the following conditions: "Strait is the gate, and narrow the way that leadeth unto the exaltation and continuation of the lives, and few there be that find it, because ye receive me not in the world neither do ye know me" (
D&C 132:22).
All Church ordinances lead to exaltation, and the essential crowning ordinances are the Endowment and the eternal marriage covenant of the temple (
D&C 131:1-4, 132).
Exaltation - The Encyclopedia of Mormonism
And: did the president that had this revelation tell bout these things I here ask about?