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Were did you find it? Is there away we can get a copy of the talk? Thank you. Here is the link to the talk by Elder Talmage, page 94: https://archive.org/details/ConferenceReports1930s/mode/2up?q=102nd+session+of+the+church+of+jesus+christ+of+latter+day+saints+general+conference Scripture Study Made Easy:Book of Mormon
by Kathryn Jenkins Gordon. Thanks.
Thanks again for the link. Very interesting. Finding old GC talks isn’t as hard as you might think, but it often takes more than just a Google search. Here’s a link from the church website that lists a few ways to find older talks: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/quick-tip-finding-older-general-conference-talks?lang=eng ” class=”bbcode_url”> https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/quick-tip-finding-older-general-conference-talks?lang=eng Within that link are four other links. Most of us are fairly familiar with the first one. It links to the church website that has talks back to 1971 and is the same archive available on your Gospel Library app and on churchofjesuschrist.org.
The second link is to the BYU “corpus.” It’s trickier because the talks don’t just pop up, you have to search for what you’re looking for (key words or phrases). Once you do that though, talks will pop up from as far back as 1851. There’s also some other fun stuff to play around with there because it will give frequency of words or phrases.
The third link is to the church history department’s archive, which is literally scanned copies of conference reports. This one is more useful if you know when someone said it, like the quote from above. There is no index, but you can sort by year and you can read all the talks back to 1900 and a few before that. There are also some in other languages.
The last one I find is the hardest to use. It is a link to BYU’s “Scripture Citation Index.” If you want to see how often a certain passage of scriputre has been used, by whom, and when, it’s useful. Also, on the bottom right there is a “library” button. Clicking it will bring up links to GC since 1942 (from church magazines) and the Journal of Discourses.
I remember hearing a talk given by a seventy once where he stated that we would get to choose where we would spend eternity. Rather than it being a judgement passed sentencing you to a particular place, our judgement would probably look more like a conversation (I guess maybe similar to one you might have in a bishops office?) and you would then choose where you would be most comfortable spending eternity. While I do have a few issues with this idea, it’s the one that seems to make the most sense to me personally. PazamaManX wrote:
I remember hearing a talk given by a seventy once where he stated that we would get to choose where we would spend eternity. Rather than it being a judgement passed sentencing you to a particular place, our judgement would probably look more like a conversation (I guess maybe similar to one you might have in a bishops office?) and you would then choose where you would be most comfortable spending eternity. While I do have a few issues with this idea, it’s the one that seems to make the most sense to me personally.
It’s like… the concept of free will (as emphasized significantly in the plan of salvation) is applicable in the post life!
I am partially convinced the “three kingdoms” and such are more states of mind than physical places that are separated. It’s less like America, Africa and Alaska and more like a party inviting everyone to attend so rich people, poor people, nerds and athletics are all inside and sort of form their own social groups by nature of comfort.
I think this way because it’s been taught to me that the spirit world is that way. And also taught to me that “Hell” or “outer darkness” is a state of mind. So why not the rest of the kingdoms? I do not know where or why the “cannot progress or visit people in a kingdom higher than you” part came from, as it seems to conflict with the idea of eternal progression, but I do like to ponder what the more pure gospel of Jesus Christ may have been before the transition of man.
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