@GoWithJordan_@GuyInco15542744@ThoughtfulSaint Is there a species that can be associated with God besides humanity in Christ? If the Bible describes God in anthropomorphic terms and Christ took on flesh as son of Man, is there another option?
@ThoughtfulSaint@needGod_net Therefore if they had true faith, they would still be damned if baptism was needed for salvation. The LDS framework solves this with vicarious ordinances of salvation and exaltation
@ThoughtfulSaint@needGod_net We need better phraseology. Works so many times in the Bible address practices of "the law", not things like Baptism under Christ. One reason why. Protestantism has an issue with this is because they don't have vicarious work. So if someone dies on their way to baptism, too bad.
@BfyreSimp@Mormonger No, my question is 1. when is there sufficient objective data to establish biological sex and 2. In extremely rare cases of sufficient ambiguity in DSD, what is the possibility and result of error? That isn't "whatever the doctor says" and doesn't rely on self identification
@BfyreSimp@Mormonger Life as a man due to the mistakes of those who cared for them. Does this change the eternal nature of the person's gender? Will the resurrected body change to confirm the Doctor's decision? I'd think not. But this doesn't mean the woman spirit was put into a male body. It is a...
@BfyreSimp@Mormonger I'm not sure the presence of an extra Y chromosome means male in DSD is the majority mormon view. Can you provide references?
And I would say there is no objective way to identify outside of the body
@yellowwalrus65@LDS_Dems The problem you're going to run into is that 1) the biblical text doesn't condemn polygamy 2) The church since Joseph Smith has affirmed 132 as canon. 3) Your interpretation of Jacob 2 has to deal with the exception in the text.
Thats before you can make the historical case
@BfyreSimp@Mormonger OK, so in this case we are talking about DSD where a person is determined to be female at birth. And you are saying they have male spirits based on what criteria?
@BfyreSimp@Mormonger Chromosomal identity is a biological sex marker. However, even in the rarest cases of DSD, a biological sex can be definitively and adequately determined (at least from a medical standpoint). I'm not here to argue social markers or self identification which are different issues
@BfyreSimp@Mormonger I think you're obfuscating terms that I've been using to keep clarity. I'm using biological sex markers and am not addressing gender of spirit as there is no way to differentiate that meaningfully from the body
@BfyreSimp@Mormonger OK, so because there exist people with extremely rare cases of DSD that may obfuscate biological sex markers (even though effectively 0 cases exist where medical professionals cannot difinitively assign sex) We cannot weigh in on Gender in mortality. Got it
@BfyreSimp@Mormonger OK, so we are talking about DSD where there is a completely obscured markers. Which is a genetic defect, to prove that Gender is not an eternal principle, because in mortality this population may not have a clear understanding of this aspect of their identity?