(July 31, 2013 at 11:03 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: What is the virtue in believing in something you have no evidence for? AKA, taking it on faith? Why is this virtue so great that you should be rewarded for being gullible? I would understand actually, if you think god will reward you for the good deeds you do, but why is believing in god considered a good?
Another question: what do you plan to do in heaven? How many years have you planned out?
For the first question, I think we as human beings are skeptical to begin with. There is no evidence, but there is hope. We work with that hope, and it can eventually blossom into faith. Even the smallest amount of faith can lead a man to Christ, if he puts that faith to work on finding out if the Gospel of Christ is true.
The only downside I see to not having faith would be that a person will most likely not attain the highest degree of glory. If the truth is presented to someone while they are on earth, but they reject it, then the burden falls to them to correct this action lest they lose all possibility of returning to God. Those without knowledge of Christ will all be saved, and they will be given equal opportunity in the next life to accept Him as their Savior. In this way God is both Just and Merciful.
Believing in God, therefore, is very good, for it give us the chance to become like Him some day. Disbelief isn't bad either, but it's still failing the test in a way.
As for the second question, I first plan on learning as much about the nature of Godhood as I possibly can. Omnipotence and Omniscience sound like daunting prospects, but I'm sure my new resurrected body can handle it. I'm sure the learning process will take a few hundred, if not a few thousand years...we learn so little in our short existence as flesh and blood, so picking up the rest will be a ginormous task.
After my learning is at a satisfactory level, I suppose the baby-making will begin. It's not accomplished in the way you would think...making Spirit Children is a completely different process, and hundreds of thousands can be made at once. It's also easier since I'll have my entire family to help out. (In Heaven, we can also get sealed to multiple wives since the laws of the land no longer interfere with God's law.)
I'll send these Spirit Children on their way, and they will have a Savior to help them overcome sin, just like Jesus did for us. It won't be anyone in my blood line. It may not even be a person from our planet. You see, we believe that Christ is the Savior of other planets as well, not just our own. Heavenly Father's contemporaries made spirit children for their own planets, and Christ had to save them too. We are lucky enough to be on the planet to where God's only Begotten Son was sent!
