Nevertheless, there is some judgment made. Good and evil do exist, and the good or evil that we are will rise with us, and determine the nature of our time in that state between death and resurrection. Alma says that the spirits of the righteous are “received into a state of happiness, which is called paradise.”
Linguistic: The term “paradise” has its lexical roots in Old World mythologies. We needed suppose that there is any meaning here, however, except that which was common for Joseph Smith. Paradise is a term used in the New Testament, and that is the context in which Joseph would have known it, and would have used it.