Lazar dies in the battle, having chosen the celestial kingdom, but the defeat of the Serbs near Pristina, the modern capital of Kosovo, has been a rallying cry for Serbian nationalists and a historic root of Serbian animosity toward Kosovo's ethnic Albanians and Bosnia's Muslims.
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In 1832, Smith taught a doctrine based on 1 Corinthians 15 known as the degrees of glory, holding that those who repent and are worthy will receive greater blessings than those who are wicked, the greatest of which is eternal life, which is to live with God in the celestial kingdom.
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Those in the celestial kingdom will be allowed to continue to progress and become joint heirs with Jesus Christ; but only individuals that are in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom will eventually be enabled in eternity to become gods and goddesses and participate in the eternal creative process of having spirit children.
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Those in the celestial kingdom will be allowed to continue to progress and become joint heirs with Jesus Christ; but only individuals that are in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom will eventually be enabled in eternity to become gods and goddesses and participate in the eternal creative process of having spirit children.
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In " Heaven and Hell ", Swedenborg wrote that " [ t ] here are three heavens " that are " entirely distinct from each other . " Swedenborg called the highest heaven " the Celestial Kingdom . " He also stated that the inhabitants of the three heavens corresponded to the " sun, moon and stars ."
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Mormons teach that " all who have died without a knowledge of [ the ] gospel, who would have received it if they had been permitted to tarry, shall be heirs of the celestial kingdom of God . " Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, and others have taught that the dead are unconscious ( or even nonexistent ), awaiting their destiny on Judgment Day.
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The endowment is often thought of as a series of lectures where Latter-day Saints are taught about the creation of the world, the events in the Garden of Eden, what happened after Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden into the " telestial world ", and the progression of righteous individuals through " terrestrial " laws to the celestial kingdom and exaltation.
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According to True to the Faith, ( A handbook on doctrines in the LDS faith ) " The celestial kingdom is the place prepared for those who have " received the testimony of Jesus " and been " made perfect through Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, who wrought out this perfect atonement through the shedding of his own blood " ( D & C 76 : 51, 69 ).
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A celestial marriage was not required to get into the celestial kingdom, but was required to obtain a new and everlasting covenant of marriage ]; And if he does not, he cannot obtain it . " ( ) The righteous who do not have a celestial marriage would still make it into heaven, and live eternally with God, but they would be " appointed angels in heaven, which angels are ministering servants . " ()
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Jacobs struggled with the arrangement, still very much feeling that Zina was his wife, and, in later years wrote to Zina, " the same affection is there . . . . But I feel alone . . . . I do not Blame Eny person . . . . [ M ] ay the Lord our Father bless Brother Brigham . . . . [ A ] ll is right according to the Law of the Celestial Kingdom of our God Joseph ".
