# LDS theology questions thread

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 21, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lds-theology-questions-thread/385140 "2006-12-21T23:21:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lds-theology-questions-thread/385140/10 "2006-12-22T05:11:59Z")

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[QUOTE=Priceguy]  
So even unsaved heathens like me will have a pretty nice afterlife? I like you guys already!  
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Yes. Your only punishment will be the knowledge of what you’re missing out on, which presumably you won’t want anyhow, as everyone gets a fair chance to accept or reject it (either here or afterwards–we don’t give up easily and are all for second chances).

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> Do you (either generic you, as in Mormons, or specific you as in you personally - your choice) believe that God was once a human who learned and progressed as you hope to do?

To quote my husband, “I’m going to take a firm stand on my lack of certainty.” It’s not one of those things that we really know very much about. There has been talk about it, and it has been taught. If so, it was not during the existence of this universe (at least, so I’m inclined to think), but long before. On the whole, yes, we think so–but it wouldn’t shatter our world to find that someone got a little carried away with the speculation, either. However, this is another area where we know so very little that it’s too easy to get into speculation and get all weird.

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