{"id":12312,"date":"2010-04-17T18:54:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T23:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=12312"},"modified":"2010-04-17T18:55:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T23:55:01","slug":"what-is-the-doctrinal-status-of-the-car-wreck-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/what-is-the-doctrinal-status-of-the-car-wreck-story\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the doctrinal status of the car-wreck story?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a story we’ve all heard, and it’s still in wide circulation. For instance, from the current YW manual:<\/a> <\/p>\n

President Spencer W. Kimball told the following true story:<\/p>\n

\u201cA few years ago a young couple who lived in northern Utah came to Salt Lake City for their marriage. They did not want to bother with a temple marriage, or perhaps they did not feel worthy. At any rate, they had a civil marriage. After the marriage they got into their automobile and drove north to their home for a wedding reception. On their way home they had an accident, and when the wreckage was cleared, there was a dead man and a dead young woman. They had been married only an hour or two. Their marriage was ended. They thought they loved each other. They wanted to live together forever, but they did not live the commandments that would make that possible. So death came in and closed that career. They may have been good young people; I don\u2019t know. But they will be angels in heaven if they are. They will not be gods and goddesses and priests and priestesses because they did not fulfill the commandments and do the things that were required at their hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes we have people who say, \u2018Oh, someday I will go to the temple. But I am not quite ready yet. And if I die, somebody can do the work for me in the temple.\u2019 And that should be made very clear to all of us. The temples are for the living and for the dead only when the work could not have been done. Do you think that the Lord will be mocked and give to this young couple who ignored him, give them the blessings? The Lord said, \u2018For all contracts that are not made unto this end have an end when men are dead.\u2019 (D&C 132:7)\u201d (in Conference Report, Japan Area Conference 1975, pp. 61\u201362).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is this analysis — especially the prediction that this couple will be unable to receive a sealing after death — official doctrine? What kind of official guidance (if any) do<\/em> we have? (And for those who may not be enthusiastic about teaching this story in YW, Jeans at Beginnings New has collected some fantastic resources<\/a>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a story we’ve all heard, and it’s still in wide circulation. For instance, from the current YW manual: President Spencer W. Kimball told the following true story: \u201cA few years ago a young couple who lived in northern Utah came to Salt Lake City for their marriage. They did not want to bother with a temple marriage, or perhaps they did not feel worthy. At any rate, they had a civil marriage. After the marriage they got into their automobile and drove north to their home for a wedding reception. On their way home they had an accident, and when the wreckage was cleared, there was a dead man and a dead young woman. They had been married only an hour or two. Their marriage was ended. They thought they loved each other. They wanted to live together forever, but they did not live the commandments that would make that possible. So death came in and closed that career. They may have been good young people; I don\u2019t know. But they will be angels in heaven if they are. They will not be gods and goddesses and priests and priestesses because they did not fulfill the commandments and do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12314,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions\/12314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}