MAX - I understand that many other worlds have been created.
My questions are: Was there a Savior provided for
those other worlds, and if so, who was it? It does
not make sense that Jesus would have been born also on
other worlds, but we are taught that these worlds were
created by Him.
JOEL - From what I have gathered from my studies on this
subject so far, is that Jesus was not born over and
over again on other worlds but that He is the Savior
for all the worlds He created; we just happen to be
the lucky one that He came to, to obtain His body and
bring about the atonement and resurrection.
The most probable reason why Jesus came to this planet
is because it was the most wicked of all of His
creations, and would therefore most likely be the one that would put Him to death:
"Wherefore, I can stretch forth mine hands and hold
all the creations which I have made; and mine eye can
pierce them also, and among all the workmanship
of mine hands there has not been so great wickedness
as among thy brethren. (Moses 7:36).
In a poetic paraphrase of Doctrine and Covenants 76,
Joseph Smith wrote that Jesus Christ was not only the
Creator but also the Savior of all the worlds:
"And I heard a great voice bearing record from heav'n,
He's the Saviour, and only begotten of God -
By him, of him, and through him, the worlds were all made,
Even all that career in the heavens so broad,
Whose inhabitants, too, from the first to the last,
Are sav'd by the very same Saviour of ours;
And, of course, are begotten God's daughters and sons,
By the very same truths, and the very same pow'rs."
(Times and Seasons, 1 Feb. 1843, 82-83)
Concerning the universality of the Savior's work,
Elder Marion G. Romney declared:
"Except for his mortal ministry accomplished on this
earth, his service and relationship to other worlds
and their inhabitants are the same as his service and
relationship to this earth and its inhabitants"
(Improvement Era, Nov. 1968, 46).
Elder Bruce R. McConkie said:
“When the prophets speak of an infinite atonement,
they mean just that. Its effects cover all men, the
earth itself and all forms of life thereon, and reach
out into the endless expanse of eternity. … And
through the power of his atonement the inhabitants of
these worlds, the revelation says, ‘are begotten sons
and daughters unto God’ (D&C 76:24), which means that
the atonement of Christ, being literally and truly
infinite, applies to an infinite number of earths”
(Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed., Salt Lake City: Bookcraft,
pp. 64, 65).
Even though Christ probably did not live and die on
other planets, there is no doubt that He must have
visited them and set up His kingdom and Gospel on
them through His prophets.
I must advise however, that even though the above
references seem to suppport the fact that the
atonement Jesus performed on this earth applies to all
worlds, I think it is best to not come to any hard
conclusions on the subject until we receive more
revelation from God.