Plan of salvation/Three degrees of glory

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The Three Degrees of Glory

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Concept of Hell

History of the belief in a three-part heaven

Summary: Having said that, it so happens that there is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to sources contemporary with or within a few centuries of Paul, sources that showed consistently what ancient Christians and Jews believed in-enough, as it happens, to establish not just an objection to an argument from absence, but an actual consensus. And that consensus is exactly the opposite of what critics claim.

Meaning of "telestial"

Not biblical

Summary: Critics claim that the doctrine of three heavens has no basis in the Bible.

Progression between kingdoms

Summary: Is there progression between the three degrees of glory?

Swedenborg

Summary: Critics claim that Joseph Smith derived the idea of "three degrees of glory" in the afterlife from Emanuel Swedenborg's book, Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen (1758).[1] Critics also claim that Joseph Smith's practice of plural marriage was similar to Swedenborg's philosophy of "spiritual wifery."