What do Latter-day Saints believe about the Final Judgment? Ep. 152

In this episode, David explores Latter-day Saint doctrine surrounding perhaps the most important event in our eternal lives: Judgment Day.

Video transcript and additional notes here: https://bit.ly/3pC58wM

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“Judgment Day, Final” via the Encyclopedia of Mormonism: https://bit.ly/3cH9zQi
A collection of scriptures and quote about the Final Judgment, via BYU-I: https://bit.ly/31fzbSa
“The Final Judgment” by Terry B. Ball (BYU Studies): https://bit.ly/3cNwYzz
“Judgment, the Last” via Guide to the Scriptures: https://bit.ly/3r314r7
“Chapter 46: The Final Judgment” via the Gospel Principles manual: https://bit.ly/3l8fH8J
“Christ, Our Advocate and High Priest” by John S. Tanner (BYU Studies): https://bit.ly/3xm4jev
“The Challenge to Become” by Dallin H. Oaks (Oct. 2000): https://bit.ly/3Ed2dQK
“Faith Unto Repentance” by Brent L. Top (BYU Studies): https://bit.ly/3roeGNG

Notes:

— Latter-day Saints believe that everyone will be judged using 3 records: One is the record kept in heaven, called the Book of Life, as mentioned in Revelation 20:12. The next record is kept on earth. I don’t know exactly what this refers to. Maybe legal records, church archives, personal journals, maybe even your social media posts — can you imagine God scrolling through your Instagram? Heaven help us.

The third record is you. John Taylor taught, “[The individual] tells the story himself, and bears witness against himself. … That record that is written by the man himself in the tablets of his own mind, that record that cannot lie will in that day be unfolded before God and angels, and those who shall sit as judges” (Deseret News, Mar. 8, 1865, 179).

I wrote this article a while back that provides additional quotes from past leaders on this subject. It’s actually quite fascinating: https://bit.ly/3r8fw0X

— Joseph Smith taught that people will be judged “’not according to what they have not, but according to what they have,’ those who have lived without law, will be judged without law, and those who have a law, will be judged by that law.”

— The rest of the Dallin H. Oaks quote in this video says this: “It is not enough for anyone just to go through the motions. The commandments, ordinances, and covenants of the gospel are not a list of deposits required to be made in some heavenly account. The gospel of Jesus Christ is a plan that shows us how to become what our Heavenly Father desires us to become.”

— Abinadi (in the Book of Mormon) taught in Mosiah 16:1, “…every nation, kindred, tongue, and people shall see eye to eye and shall confess before God that his judgments are just.”

— The Book of Mormon teaches that when the final judgment comes, those who have chosen wickedness, “shall have a perfect knowledge of all [their] guilt, and [their] uncleanness, and [their] nakedness; and the righteous shall have a perfect knowledge of their enjoyment, and their righteousness, being clothed with purity…” (2 Nephi 9).

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