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336: 36: 169:, a translated being has a terrestrial body. The terrestrial body would be different from the terrestrial glory of heaven, just as the presentworld is considered "telestial" but is not the telestial glory of heaven. Translated beings with terrestrial bodies can appear or disappear the way the resurrected 193:
Latter-day Saints believe that a select number of individuals have been translated. Some of these individuals have been admitted into heaven to await their formal resurrection, and others have been permitted to remain upon the earth until that time. The following are a list of persons that Latter-day
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Those who are translated beings are said to be "changed so that they do not experience pain or death until their resurrection to immortality." Both translated and resurrected beings are eternally young and fit, not subject to illness or injury and spend their existences as ministering angels doing
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things that require physical bodies to perform; for example, where a disembodied spirit can record events as a witness and offer comfort or advice, a physical body is required to perform ordinances such as
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Many Latter-day Saints believe that there are also other persons who have been translated, some of whom may also have been taken to heaven; there is some LDS scriptural support for this belief.
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However, it was later shown that she had faked her "translation" and gone into hiding with her husband in order to increase sales of her books. She hid away from the
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Saints believe were translated; the individuals in bold script are the ones that have presumably been admitted into heaven as a translated being:
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person, with the exception that a translated being has never died and has a body with less power than a resurrected being. According to
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Similar beliefs about "translation" were also held by other religious groups and sects at various times and places, such as the
643: 633: 455:. Latter-day Saints do not believe that Moses "died", as is reported in Deuteronomy; see other references for clarification. 404: 24: 472: 496: 448: 424: 551: 420: 416: 383: 540: 516: 476: 444: 309:) after her clothes were found in her room in 1952 and she totally disappeared, and he disappeared soon afterward. 182: 524: 512: 488: 559: 452: 520: 436: 198: 105: 499:. John the Apostle was not taken to heaven alive, but was given power over death that he might live until the 492: 464: 468: 440: 555: 400: 396: 100:
from a mortal human being to an immortal human being. A person that has been translated is referred to as a
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thought that she, along with her husband Reason Skarin, indeed achieved physical immortality (been
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themselves directly into Heaven. She also claimed in her book to be able to see directly into the
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was a woman who had been raised in the LDS Church who claimed to have invented a
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For the general concept of mystical translation in other religions, see
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In Mormonism, being changed into an immortal state without dying
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Entering heaven alive
translation (disambiguation)
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Mormonism
God
Enoch
Moses
John the Apostle
Three Nephites
resurrected
Parley P. Pratt
Degrees of glory
laying on of hands
Parley P. Pratt
Jesus
Luke
Second Coming of Christ
Enoch
People of Enoch's City of Zion
Moses
Elijah
John the Apostle
Three Unnamed Nephites
Alma, son of Alma
Buchanites
Scotland
St Clement

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