Living Into Eternal Progression

September 25, 2014 by James Faulconer

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Brigham Young brought together both the here-and-now of those aspirations and their promise: "When we have learned to live according to the full value of the life we now possess, we are prepared for further advancement in the scale of eternal progression—for a more glorious and exalted sphere" (Journal of Discourses 9:168). The aspiration here and now is to learn the full value of the life that God has given us and to learn to live in accordance with that value. The promise is that, having done so, we will progress to something even more glorious.

Joseph Smith's comfort to the mourners to whom he spoke in 1844 was based on the belief that "all the spirits that God ever sent into the world are susceptible to enlargement." Therefore, he promised those who heard him, "You mourners have occasion to rejoice, for your husband and father is gone to wait until the resurrection; and your expectations and hopes are far above what man can conceive."

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About James Faulconer

James Faulconer is a Richard L. Evans Professor of Religious Understanding at Brigham Young University, where he has taught philosophy since 1975.

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