I believe there are two types of illiterate people, the ones that are too lazy to learn and the ones that don't have the opportunity. I know that the Lord's spirit will quide those who are of the latter catagory. In the United States your only illiterate if you are lazy.
Brian? Are you okay? What does that have to do with this thread? By the way, you will notice from this forum that US flag is not the most common so we are not there :spock:
As for your prior post I never thought about it in that light, thanks for the tip, I guess like everyone I was taking it in the context that the Lord was speaking to all of Adam's prosperity and what they were to as regards to their relationship with Adam and Eve.
JB he's saying that based on something I said before. Brian, maybe the case of the United States but you know, the United States is not the whole world....but to say that you cannot be saved in the Celestial Kingdom if you don't know Chemistry is ridiculous!, nothing personal Brian, but it's a pretty crazy statement whoever said it.
My point about the United States is that everyone that lives in the United States has gone to school so God will judge them based on that opportunity.
My point about chemistry and other subjects of learning is tha the Doctrine and Covenants clearly points out that it is impossible for us to be saved in ignorance. What does our church teach about those who obtain the highest degree of the Celestial Kingdom? They will become gods, they will obtain all the Father has, they will be able to create worlds without number. If they are able to create worlds without number they have to be able to understand the laws that make creating worlds possible, and that includes chemistry. God is the best chemist, he knows that in order to place a world for mortal children to dwell, their world much work in harmony with their organic systems. That is why the earth is placed in such a perfect condition. If it's orbit from the sun was just a little closer it woudl be like Venus, too hot for us, and if it was further it would be too cold for us. Our earth is placed in a possition so that we have polar ice caps on the pools and tropical rain forest in the middle. This is essential to us as God's children because it provides us with the proper amount of oxyen (in chemistry terms O2) It also provides us so that we may have drinking water depending on our needs. He also has establish a magnetic system that also gives us our gravity. With no gravity we would be in chaos, rain would not fall, etc. Elder Bradford of the Seventy explained that we are to learn and obey all laws, all laws are spiritual laws even if they are based on secular scholarship. He pointed out specifically that the law of gravity was an essential law that we must obey and give heed too. It is a law that we need to govern ourselves with, he also pointed out that those who try to disobey this law by trying to fly off cliffs would soon find that they cannot grow if they don't learn to be governed by the law, and disobedience might kill them.
All laws if they be chemical biological, or if they be a law of commandments on our conduct with eachother are to be mastered and understood prior to us recieving exaltation.
This is off the topic but I don't know if you have somewere else I can put this but these are are few statements by Brigham Young:
'See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning; let them become more informed in every department of true and useful learning than their fathers are. When they have become well acquainted with their language, let them study other languages, and make themselves fully acquainted with the manners, customs, laws, governments and literature of other nations, peoples, and tongues. Let them also learn all the truth pertaining to the arts and sciences, and how to apply the same to their temporal wants. Let them study things that are upon the earth, that are in the earth, and that are in the heavens. 8:9"
""Shall I sit down and read the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Book of Covenants all the time?" says one. Yes, if you please, and when you have done, you may be nothing but a sectarian after all. It is your duty to study to know everything upon the face of the earth in addition to reading those books. We should not only study good, and its effects upon our race, but also evil, and its consequences. 2:93-94."
[quote]adam had a belly button because god made him in the same image and likeness as him self [/quote]
So you're saying then that God himself had a belly button..which would suggest He was born from a mortal mother like Adam also?.