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In light of the last paragraph of this article, should this article be renamed to "Agency (Mormonism)"? Val42 05:31, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
I've just read the definition given in the first paragraph. Considering it... isn't this but another name for "free will"? -- euyyn 16:26, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
I just restructured the article. I started by rewriting the Mormonism section of the free will article with a prominent "See also" to this article. I then copied the summary paragraph (mostly intact) to become the introductory paragraph for this article. I then broke this article in to sections that I thought would be appropriate and started writing text for said sections. This worked to help me figure out what information should go in each section even though little of my original text survived to the final edit. I then moved existing text to the appropriate sections.
I think that the article is much improved, but there are some problems that I don't think I can fix right now:
Someone else please look at the entire article and these points in particular and fix the article. Val42 01:33, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
We need a lot more references and inline citations, which you should be able to find in abundance at the Gospel Library. For now it probably needs the original research tag. See Wikipedia:No original research. -- Lethargy 05:48, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
The quote from the Temple Preperation manual does not have an end quote punctuation mark. 65.7.232.42 03:32, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
The second volunteer, Lucifer, attempted to amend the plan by proposing that all mankind would return to Heavenly Father despite their sins - essentially, defeating agency and the divine principle of accountability for action. God the Father chose the plan that he proposed with Jesus as the Savior. Lucifer and his followers rebelled against this plan and were eventually cast out of Heaven and became Satan.
OK, so according to this above paragraph, Mormonism seems to attest to the view that you can be separated from God indefinitely. i.e. "cast into hell." However, my Mormon friends claim that everyone goes to heaven eventually after spending a varying amount of time in Spirit Prison according to their sins and that there "is no hell." So which is it according to LDS doctrine? 67.5.156.121 ( talk) 22:32, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Also only those in the highest degree of glory (celestial) are in the presence of God, those in the terrestrial and telestial are cut off from the presence of God —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.73.172.100 ( talk) 01:46, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
There is then the issue of hierarchy for those who did not battle against Satan with sufficient merit (or will?) when they were in God's Celestial glory before creation. It is of course an issue for those who are black, since traditionally black people were thought by Joseph Smith and Young to be the incarnation of these insufficient (or possibly renegade) spirits which lacked merit in heaven; thus explaining the verse in the Book of Mormon stating that when one dies one becomes white. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.115.44.174 ( talk) 00:08, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, I know this isn't the right place for this, but I was wondering if this concept really isn't taught in other churches. I'm LDS and I always assumed it was. thanks.-- FUNKAMATIC ~talk 16:29, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
This article was changed a while back to the present Agency (LDS Church), but I think we should return it to Agency (Mormonism). This doctrine is essentially shared, for example, with Fundamentalists. Anyone disagree? COGDEN 05:12, 12 February 2011 (UTC)