Deep Doctrine

Have you ever wondered about where Kolob is? If we are as God once was, who is Heavenly Father's Father? Why don't we talk much about Heavenly Mother? Does Heavenly Father govern just the Milky Way Galaxy or the entire observable universe? Who, specifically, are the sons of perdition? How do parallel universes play into the Plan of Salvation? How did God create the world—was evolution involved, and how long did it take? Where is the nearest world inhabited by humans? Where are the three Nephites?

Books have been written trying to answer these and so many other similar questions, which frankly have nothing to do with our salvation. Despite this meaninglessness, people devote hundreds of hours of their lives debating and researching such topics.

The term "Deep Doctrine" is really a misnomer as the questions are neither deep nor doctrinal. A much more appropriate term would be "Speculation," nevertheless we all get what is meant by the more common term.

Expect hilarity to ensue when anything within this realm is introduced in a missionary lesson. Members who take lessons this way will often be uninvited because of their fire hose techniques.