the real difference between LDS and other Christians
Ask what separates Mormons from other Christians and people reach for metaphysics. The creeds. Nicaea. The Trinity against the Godhead. The grove. Those things are real, and they matter to maybe one believer in ten.
Walk into any Catholic parish or nondenominational church and ask the people in the pews to explain the Trinity.
Watch what happens.
Water, ice, and steam. That is modalism. An egg with a shell, a white, and a yolk. That is partialism. Jesus as the first and greatest being God ever made. That is Arius, the man Nicaea was called to condemn. And when they pray, they picture exactly what Joseph saw. A Son on His knees in Gethsemane, crying out to a Father who is not Himself.
Nobody lives in the creeds. People live in their prayers.
Then ask them about heaven. Better yet, go to a funeral and listen to the eulogies. He is fishing with his dad again. She is back with the husband she buried ten years ago. Grandpa is watching over the kids, and one day the whole family will sit at one table again. Nobody at that graveside is longing for the vision of the divine essence the old theologians promised. They want their mother back.
That is the heaven Joseph described in 1843: "that same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there, only it will be coupled with eternal glory."
Our non-lds christian neighbors already live in the mormon heaven. Just nobody told them whose house it is.
So what actually divides us?
One claim. Mormons say God speaks through a living prophet, a man with a name and a face, whose words can bind the whole Church and become scripture.
Everything else grows from that root. The Godhead. Eternal families. Degrees of glory. Work for the dead. None of it came from philosophers. All of it came as revelation, and all of it stands or falls on whether revelation came back.
God has spoken or God is speaking
https://x.com/nicoraytruth/status/2102894822600429769?s=20
This is so true about the united version of Heaven. But why is it that only one faith actually teaches it as part of their doctrine even though most believe it? Is it because that is our most desired conception of heaven?
collective unconscious (Jungian thought) or we slightly remember premortal existence
Absolutely we do. It's a fondness that we long for and hope to return to. Have you ever read the series The Great and terrible? The first book is "the brothers". Obviously just for fun but wow did it do a good job with creativity about the pre-existence.
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