Q&A On Exalted Persons being served by their children, and The Eternal Ownership of a Parent to its Child
By Nate Richardson 7-6-18
These are questions from various readers and brief responses with links to further reading.
Question:
Why do you say children will serve their parents in eternity? (Referring to document “Children an inheritance from the Lord http://richardsonstudies.com/2018/02/12/children-heritage-inheritance-lord-parent-eternity/)
Answer:
Perhaps the chief way they will serve us is by bringing us joy in the fruits of their labors, and knowing that we played a part in enabling them for their success. I could point this out a bit more in my writing, thanks. http://richardsonstudies.com/…/parenthood-eternal…/ this speaks of God’s glory being his children (Mosiah 8:15) and parenthood being a code word for exaltation. http://richardsonstudies.com/…/22/gospel-creation-theory/ this is about how humans not just God, have vast power to contribute to the salvation or damnation of other humans. http://richardsonstudies.com/…/20/essential-foot-soldier/ this is more about how to be a parent is to be a God, including going through what look like small roles today which will be exchanged for what are obvious large roles ‘tomorrow’. http://richardsonstudies.com/…/principles-priority…/ this is about family roles of marriage and parenthood being analogous to creation fall and atonement.
Question:
Does our ‘keeping’ our children forever make them less of God’s children, prying them away from God for ourselves? (Referring to document “Children an inheritance from the Lord http://richardsonstudies.com/2018/02/12/children-heritage-inheritance-lord-parent-eternity/)
Answer:
Does Jesus pry us from Heavenly Father by making us his children? Clearly, he has become one of our parents (Mosiah 5:7, see also “sons and daughters of God” in the topical guide https://www.lds.org/scriptures/tg/sons-and-daughters-of-god?lang=eng).
The idea is that we can be essentially adopted into several groups. Heavenly Father’s kingdom, Jesus Christ’s kingdom, our parents’ kingdom (if they were righteous), and build our own kingdom (if we are righteous). There is no prying involved, perhaps unless you let the Devil adopt you, another Book of Mormon doctrine….. http://richardsonstudies.com/…/parenthood-eternal…/ this speaks of God’s glory being his children (Mosiah 8:15) and parenthood being a code word for exaltation. http://richardsonstudies.com/…/22/gospel-creation-theory/ this is about how humans not just God, have vast power to contribute to the salvation or damnation of other humans. http://richardsonstudies.com/…/20/essential-foot-soldier/ this is more about how to be a parent is to be a God, including going through what look like small roles today which will be exchanged for what are obvious large roles ‘tomorrow’.
