S4E26 Can Adulterers Go to the Celestial Kingdom?

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We start with an email we received from a Catholic in Quebec and a new litner from France that we met on our recent Church history tour. In this episode we discuss the following quote from Joseph Smith ”If a man commit adultery, he cannot receive the celestial kingdom of God. Even if he is saved in any kingdom, it cannot be the celestial kingdom.” We discuss where this quote comes from, the context of the quote, and Gerrit shares a story about George Adams having a child through an adulterous relationship and the statement from Joseph Smith when George repents and comes back to the Church Just in case there is any confusion the Standard of Truth Podcast takes a very strong position against adultery, and we would like to refer you to President Hinckley’s April 1991 conference address on the matter (in addition to the 295 conference addresses on the topic since 1850): https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1991/04/what-god-hath-joined-together?lang=eng#p1 Sign up for our free monthly email: ⁠ https://standardoftruthpodcast.substack.com If you have any questions or possible topics of discussion for upcoming podcasts, please email us at: ⁠[email protected]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast. In this podcast, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont and Professor Richard
0:07.8	Leduc, explore the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the
0:13.2	life and teachings of Prophet Joseph Smith. They examine the original historical sources and
0:18.8	provide context for events of the past.
0:21.7	They approach the history of the church with faith, expertise, and humor.
0:36.9	Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast.
0:40.5	I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my friend, Professor Richard
0:45.4	Luduke.
0:46.3	Hello, Garrett.
0:47.1	Thanks for having me back.
0:48.2	It's great to be here with you.
0:50.9	I love the smile that you get on your face when I say that.
0:54.5	Yeah, because you're always saying thanks for having me back as if I had options.
1:00.2	I feel like you do.
1:01.7	I feel like actually, it's interesting that you say that.
1:06.7	We received an email the other day, actually, like two days ago,
1:13.1	from somebody that made me wonder why I'm even on the podcast at all.
1:18.0	They didn't question it,
1:19.0	but the questions that they had for me actually had me question it.
1:22.7	But you know we're huge in Canada, obviously.
1:26.3	Oh, yeah.
1:27.1	I mean, Amy and David alone are just-
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