Do Latter-day Saints believe they will each get their own planet after they die?
The Bible answers
There is no ‘planet’ verse. There is joint-heir. They mocked a cartoon and skipped Paul.
King James Version
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
NRSVUE
It is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if we in fact suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
A throne with Christ — not a subdivision on Kolob.
King James Version
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
NRSVUE
To the one who conquers I will give a place with me on my throne, just as I myself conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
All things are yours. That is Paul, not a seminary rumor.
King James Version
Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.
NRSVUE
So let no one boast about human leaders. For all things are yours—whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
Also restored
Doctrine and Covenants 84:38
They receive the Father’s fullness. The handbook does not issue planets.
And he that receiveth my Father receiveth my Father’s kingdom; therefore all that my Father hath shall be given unto him.
Doctrine and Covenants 132:19–20
Exaltation is increase, not a private solar system in Sunday School.
Then shall they be gods, because they have no end… then shall they be above all, because all things are subject unto them.
Dead Sea Scrolls and related extra-biblical texts that illuminate the same pattern the Restoration restores.
Athanasius, On the Incarnation 54; Irenaeus, Against Heresies 4.38
Athanasius: “He was made man that we might be made God.” Irenaeus: the Word became what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is.
Eastern Orthodox still call this theosis. Nobody accuses them of wanting a private planet. The Restoration takes the same hope — children becoming like their Father — without the later philosophical fences. The meme is not the doctrine.
Gospel Topics Essays
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The official essay is blunt: Latter-day Saints will always worship the Father. Little has been revealed about creating worlds, and it is not taught as a scheme of ‘one member, one planet.’ What is taught is that through Christ the children of God may become like Him — joint-heirs, not rivals. The internet version (a ranch in space, a harem, Kolob as a street address) is assembled from jokes, fragments of the King Follett discourse, and a hymn. It is not the lesson manual.
Latter-day Saints believe that God’s children will always worship Him. Our progression will never change His identity as our Father and our God.
Faithful voices only. Most of these are independent — not official Church productions unless marked as such.
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