2
Ne 9:14 we shall have a perfect knowledge of all our
guilt
In
the resurrection, we will not suffer the limitations of memory which we now
have. Our personal computers will be able to find files much better than they
do now. There is scientific and anecdotal evidence that the brain stores
everything which happens to us in our lives. Our inability to recall certain
events does not mean the information is not there.
Neurosurgical
experiments, done on awake patients, have shown that electrical stimulation to
different portions of the brain can stimulate the recall of events in the
subject¡¯s life that had long since been forgotten. The experiments bring the
memories back with the same vividness as if the events took place yesterday.
Placing the electrical stimulation on different portions of the human cerebral
cortex will produce the recall of different events, suggesting that all events
in one¡¯s life are recorded somewhere in the brain.
We
commonly hear of people who believed they were about to die say, ¡°my life
flashed before my eyes.¡± How could these memories flash into one¡¯s
consciousness if they were not already stored in the brain? If this is the
case, and the scripture suggests it is so, we would be wise to repent of those
things which we do not want to remember at that day. Then we will be as the
righteous who shall have a perfect knowledge of
their enjoyment, and their righteousness.
John
Taylor
¡°God
has made each man a register within himself, and each man can read his own
register, so far as he enjoys his perfect faculties. This can be easily
comprehended.
¡°¡¦Let
your memories run back, and you can remember the time when you did a good
action, you can remember the time when you did a bad action; the thing is
printed there, and you can bring it out and gaze upon it whenever you please.
¡°¡¦Man
sleeps the sleep of death, but the spirit lives where the record of his deeds
is kept--that does not die--man cannot kill it; there is no decay associated
with it, and it still retains in all its vividness the remembrance of that
which transpired before the separation by death of the body and the ever-living
spirit. Man sleeps for a time in the grave, and by-and-by he rises again from
the dead and goes to judgment; and then the secret thoughts of all men are
revealed before Him with whom we have to do; we cannot hide them; it would be
in vain for a man to say then, I did not do so-and-so; the command would be,
Unravel and read the record which he has made of himself, and let it testify in
relation to these things, and all could gaze upon it. If a man has acted
fraudulently against his neighbor--has committed murder, or adultery, or any
thing else, and wants to cover it up, that record will stare him in the face,
he tells the story himself, and bears witness against himself. It is written
that Jesus will judge not after the sight of the eye, or after the hearing of
the ear, but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with
equity the meek of the earth. It is not because somebody has seen things, or
heard anything by which a man will be judged and condemned, but it is because
that record that is written by the man himself in the tablets of his own
mind--that record that cannot lie--will in that day be unfolded before God and
angels, and those who shall sit as judges.¡± (Journal of Discourses,
pp. 77-9)