It is apparent that if God rewards everyone according to the deeds done in the body, the term heaven as intended for man's eternal home must include more kingdoms than one. In speaking of man in his resurrected state, Paul tells of glories like the sun, the moon, and the stars (1 Cor. 15:39-41). He also speaks of the "third heaven" (2 Cor. 12:2). Jesus spoke of "many mansions" or kingdoms (John 14:2). Latter day revelation confirms the teaching of the Bible on these matters and verifies that there are three general categories or glories to which the members of the human family will be assigned in the judgement following their resurection from the grave. These are known as Celestial, terrestrial, and telestial kingdoms of which the sun, moon, and stars are spoken of as being typical. (D&C 76; 88: 20-32; 131:1-4). In addition to the degrees of glory, there is a place of no glory, called perdition, reserved for those who commit the unpardonable sin.
People will receive crowns and different degrees of glory depending on how they lived this life as a christian. But the bible speaks only of one heaven... when you try and mention the 3rd heaven you need to know how that term was being used, and every bible scholar out there... besides mormon ones will agree that...
1. Our sky is the 1st heaven... you can find several references of this if you just look...
2. The space past our sky that we see is the 2nd heaven....
3. The area beyond our space/ solar system which no man can see is the 3rd heaven...
Follow it logically..
yes there are many mansions... why would the Lord try and cram us all into one in heaven! This also references the greatest and vast expanse of who God is, and what he can do..
As different as the Sun, moon and stars are.. so are we.. there are no two people alike, and we will be rewarded accordingly... but the cool thing is that once we are given our crowns of glory at the Bema seat judgement... we will all toss them because we have no right to wear them when we know what Christ has done for us...
You guys are soooooo caught up in yourselves and what you will get at the end, and the hope that you will possibly become gods.. when this is false.. its not about you... its about GOD!!
