LISA - Is it true that women can only recieve salvation through thier husbands, and if so why?? Also is it true that women remain pregnant for all eternity and just give birth after birth after birth??? Why are white people treated more highly than colored people???

JOEL - Women(and men) can only receive salvation through Jesus Christ. It is believed that for LDS couples, when the resurrection happens the husband, who is sealed to his eternal wife, will use his priesthood to call his wife from the grave. We don't really know yet how this is done but I guess we will find out when the time comes. Also we believe that neither women nor men can be saved in the highest level of heaven without their spouses. Perhaps one of these concepts is what your question is refering to. But it is only through Jesus Christ that we receive our salvation in heaven.

"Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:10, 12)

And our own Book of Mormon states:

"And moreover, I say unto you, that there shall be no other name given nor any other way nor means whereby salvation can come unto the children of men, only in and through the name of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent.
For behold he judgeth, and his judgment is just; and the infant perisheth not that dieth in his infancy; but men drink damnation to their own souls except they humble themselves and become as little children, and believe that salvation was, and is, and is to come, in and through the atoning blood of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent." (Mosiah 3:17-18)

As for women being eternally pregnant; what kind of heaven would that be? It is believed that those couples who reach exaltation in the Celestial kingdom of heaven will eventually be God's of their own universes and will somehow bring forth spirit children who will inhabit worlds the same as we have done, but we have no idea how those spirit children are made.

Generally speaking, colored people are not treated any differently today than white people in our Church. But you would have to ask each individual member what he thinks about people of other races. The answers will vary just about as much as they would in any other Christian religion.
We all worship together in the same church building, sitting together in the same pews and learning the same gospel. Our church has never denied anyone membership based on color, nor have we ever had segregated church congregations or meetings. Part of the reason for some persecution of our early church members was because of the Church's stand against slavery.

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