Prestor John
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According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - the vast overwhelming majority of God's children, the human family, will enter into His Kingdom after their Resurrection and Final Judgment.“The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.”
― Emanuel Swedenborg
My question: Why not?
Only those who committed the "unpardonable sin", referred to as the "sin against the Holy Ghost" will be banished from His sight and inherit "outer darkness" that was prepared for them.
In order to commit this sin a person would need to know, beyond the shadow of any doubt, that God lives and that Jesus is the Christ, the very Son of God - and then afterwards reject or betray that knowledge.
A common metaphor to explain this process is for a person to look up at the sun at noonday and declare that it does not shine.
I can only think of a couple mentioned in the scriptures who may have committed such a sin - Cain, the son of Adam who murdered his brother and lied to God, and Judas Iscariot, the fallen Apostle who betrayed his Master, the Lord Jesus Christ, with a kiss.
These two, and any others who may have committed the unpardonable sin, will rise in the Resurrection of the Unjust, receive their Final Judgment, and be banished to "outer darkness", the only realm that exists outside the Kingdom of God.
Very few of those who live upon the Earth ever receive a perfect knowledge of God while in mortality, and very few of those would be wicked enough to betray that knowledge.