Perdition and the Three Degrees of Glory
Doctrine and Covenants 76:30-112; 131:1-4
Eternal Habitation |
Verse |
Actions/Works |
Consequences |
Perdition (no Kingdom or Glory) |
31 |
Known & partaken of God’s power |
|
31 |
Suffered selves to be overcome by devil |
|
|
31 |
Deny the truth and defy God’s power |
|
|
33 |
|
Vessels of wrath |
|
33 |
|
Doomed to suffer wrath of God |
|
34 |
|
No forgiveness in this world/world to come |
|
35 |
Denied Holy Spirit after receiving it |
|
|
35 |
Denied Only Begotten Son |
|
|
35 |
Crucified Son unto themselves, to an open shame |
|
|
36 |
|
Go into lake of fire/brimstone w/ devil and angels |
|
37 |
|
Only ones whom second death shall have any power |
|
38 |
|
Not be redeemed in due time of the Lord |
|
48 |
|
The end, width, height, depth and misery none understand |
|
|
|
|
|
Celestial Kingdom |
51 |
Received testimony of Jesus |
|
51 |
Believed in Christ’s name |
|
|
51 |
Baptized in water in his name |
|
|
52 |
Keep commandments |
|
|
52 |
|
Washed and cleanses from sins |
|
52 |
Receive the Holy Spirit by laying on of hands by one ordained |
|
|
52, 53 |
Sealed by power of the Spirit |
|
|
53 |
Overcome by faith |
|
|
53 |
|
Holy Spirit shed on them |
|
54 |
|
The Church of the Firstborn |
|
55 |
|
Father gives all things into their hands |
|
56 |
|
Are priests and kings |
|
56 |
|
Received of God’s fullness and glory |
|
57 |
|
Priests after the order of the Only Begotten Son |
|
58 |
|
They are gods/sons of God |
|
59 |
|
All things are theirs |
|
60 |
|
Shall overcome all things |
|
62 |
|
Shall dwell in God’s and Christ’s presence forever |
|
63 |
|
Shall come with Christ to reign over the earth |
|
64 |
|
Have part in the first resurrection |
|
65 |
|
Come forth in resurrection of the just |
|
66 |
|
Have come unto Mount Zion, city of living God, holiest of all |
|
67 |
|
Come to general assembly and church of Enoch/Firstborn |
|
68 |
|
Names written in heaven |
|
69 |
|
Are just men made perfect through Jesus |
|
70 |
|
Bodies are celestial, glory as the glory of God |
|
131:2 |
Enter the new and everlasting covenant of marriage |
Enter into highest heaven/degree in celestial kingdom |
|
131:3-4 |
Does not enter into covenant |
Cannot have an increase |
|
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|
|
|
Terrestrial Kingdom |
72 |
Died without the law |
|
73 |
Spirits kept in prison |
|
|
74 |
Received testimony of Christ in spirit world |
|
|
75 |
Honorable men of the earth |
|
|
75 |
Blinded by craftiness of men |
|
|
76 |
|
Received glory but not fullness |
|
77 |
Received presence of Son, but not the Father |
|
|
78 |
|
Bodies are terrestrial |
|
79 |
Not valiant in the testimony of Jesus |
Obtain not crown over kingdom of God |
|
|
|
|
|
Telestial Kingdom |
82 |
Received not gospel of Christ |
|
82 |
Received not testimony of Jesus |
|
|
83 |
Deny not the Holy Spirit |
|
|
84 |
|
Thrust down to hell |
|
85 |
|
Not redeemed from devil till Christ has finished his work |
|
86 |
Received not of Christ’ fullness in eternal world |
|
|
86 |
Received Holy Spirit through ministration of the terrestrial |
|
|
88 |
Receive the administering of angels |
|
|
88 |
Heirs of salvation |
|
|
89 |
|
Telestial surpasses all understanding |
|
99-100 |
Those who are some of one and some of another |
|
|
102 |
|
Not be gathered with the saints, church of the Firstborn |
|
103 |
Are liars, adulterers, whoremongers, loves and makes lies |
|
|
104 |
|
Suffered wrath of God on earth |
|
105 |
|
Suffer the vengeance of eternal fire |
|
106 |
|
Suffer the wrath of God until fullness of times |
|
109 |
|
Were as innumerable as the stars |
|
112 |
|
Be servants of God |
|
112 |
|
Cannot go where God and Christ dwell |