Better chance of staying out of hell right? LOL.  j/k.  I applaud your knowledge of the bible and obvious dedication to God.  You should at least make it to the second heaven...LOL...I'm totally kidding there too!    Gotta throw in a little humor in these discussions sometimes.

What if all three are really just one like the Trinity?  Just another interpretation.

LOL, I agree I'm all for humor.  I'm sure if we were all in a room discussing these topics, it would sound a lot friendlier then it probably looks.

Actually I had to travel to Salt Lake City for work 2 years ago, and I had a few conversations with some LDS members there, and they all said they believed I would be in the 2nd heaven because I follow Jesus even though I deny Joseph Smith.  They said it was impossible for me to go to the 3rd heaven denying Joseph Smith.  I just thought that was interesting as your comment brought back that moment I had with them.

This illustrates an important point. It is very easy to make allegations, and this generally takes very little time and space. Answering allegations by its very nature takes much more time and space (background, context, implications, etc.), and this can at times be an initial disadvantage, because we are living in an increasingly less literate world. Brief allegations still fit within people's shrinking attention spans, but lengthy refutations less and less so.

Mormons almost exclusively answer and refute rather than make allegations. That's a good thing, I think, because it translates into interest and curiosity that afford opportunity to share the gospel.

Honest, I'm painfully aware that I post walls of quotes and exposition that are probably a deterent for most. But, the details are there for those who are interested and will take the time to read.

Note: I'm writing a book about Journal of Discourses, so my spidey senses tingle when critics use the old shopworn chestnuts from it. This also means, though, that I can tend to give more detail than was needed.

What, no love for moinmoin's first avatar, only a couple of days old?

"Moin, moin" is a far north all purpose German greeting (all times of day, all situations). Outside of the most northern state bordering on Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), Germans themselves don't hear or use it. A member of this forum  who's from Denmark PM'd me wondering if I was Danish; apparently, "mojn, mojn" is a Danish greeting.

The picture is a doormat I brought home from my mission, long since worn out. The "moin, moin" area was my first area as a missionary.

I think it was the women's duty to attend to grave sites after burial.  Much like we might bring flowers following the death of a loved one, the women brought spices, as a sign of love and respect I would imagaine.  That's what Luke says...Luke being a medical doctor might know about these things.  Matthew is a bit more specific in his account, naming Mary Magdalene and other women.  Mark and John both say Mary Magdalene, the woman he had cast out seven demons from.  But commentary in John says that other women were also there and that we need to look at the other gospels. 

You say that it doesn't matter whether Jesus was married or not because its not part of your essential doctrine.  The Bible doesn't say that He was married and the Bible gives us all the information we need to know to live our lives.

I guess if God, through Paul was so clear about a "third" heaven as you say, then He would have been equally clear about a first and second as well.  How does one get into the third heaven?

Perhaps the truth isn't in the middle.  Perhaps one side is just wrong.

edit----that didn't sounds right :-)

I'll review the sites you listed if you review this one:  

http://fairlds.org/

I know what apostate means and I meant it the way it sounded. LDS don't like people who have left the church and are telling other people about their stories and their conversion to Christianity. If people leave the Christian church, I don't know that we give them a term like apostate. We just pray for them. And the Holy Spirit does the rest. If the Holy Spirit isn't in your church then I would imagine that doesn't happen.

I will review website. Was there something specifically you wanted me to see there?