Category: Families
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Mormonism’s Eternal Sealings: A Complex Story
3 June 2024 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints devotes considerable resources to seeking after its dead (as the faith’s founder Joseph Smith put it). This includes the genealogical research the church is somewhat famous for, used to first identify deceased people and then provide them with Mormonism’s “saving ordinances” done vicariously for…
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Can Families Be Together Forever in the Terrestrial and Telestial Kingdoms?
Check out a two-part Viewpoint on Mormonism series airing August 24-25, 2020. Part 1 Part 2 Not too long ago I spoke to two Latter-day Saint missionaries in northern California. Toward the end of the two-hour conversations, I explained that the two (both admittedly not living according to a celestial kingdom law) would end up…
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Did Jesus Believe “Families Are Forever”?
Note: The following was originally printed in the March/April 2019 edition of Mormonism Researched. To request a free subscription, please visit here. Check out a two-part Viewpoint on Mormonism series airing August 24-25, 2020. Part 1 Part 2 One of the key doctrinal issues that leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have emphasized throughout…
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Citations on Marriage
The following are sections out of Bill McKeever’s book In their Own Words: A Collection of Mormon Quotations. Standard Works “And again, verily I say unto you, that whoso forbiddeth to marry is not ordained of God, for marriage is ordained of God unto man” (Doctrine and Covenants 49:15). Joseph Smith “Except a man and…
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Will Families Be Together Forever?
The following is taken from chapter 23 of the 2013 book Answering Mormons’ Questions: Ready Responses for Inquiring Latter-day Saints by Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson, pages 184-185. To purchase this valuable resource, click here. Check out a two-part Viewpoint on Mormonism series airing August 24-25, 2020. Part 1 Part 2 Some Mormons have created…
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Is it Possible for Families to be Together Forever?
Editor’s Note: The following was originally printed in the September/October 2015 edition of Mormonism Researched. To request a free subscription, please visit here. Check out a two-part Viewpoint on Mormonism series airing August 24-25, 2020. Part 1 Part 2 The First Presidency message published in the June 2015 Ensign and written by Henry B. Eyring (“Families Can Be Together Forever”)…
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From the Mailbag (Eternal Marriage)
Hi, I have a Mormon friend that finds forever marriage very important to him and I tried explaining how Heaven is going to be so much better then any marriage or person. He then asked “What is there to do?” I haven’t studied much about what life is going to be like in Heaven and…
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Family (Defined)
Family. Meant to be a unit into eternity. One church manual said, “Only in and through the family unit can we obtain eternal life” (Doctrines of the Gospel Student Manual Religion 231 and 232, 1986, p. 78). First Presidency member James Faust explained to a general conference audience, “The Savior’s supernal gift to mankind gave us the…
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Call Me My Grandpa’s Dad’s Son
During a recent road trip, my family and I decided to stop by the St. George temple visitors’ center, which is located not too far off the main I-15 freeway at the western Utah border near Arizona. Dedicated in 1877, the St. George temple is the oldest temple in the state of Utah, and I…
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Mark 12:25 and Marriage in Heaven
By Eric Johnson “For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.” Mark 12:25
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Are Families Forever?
By Bill McKeever Mormons often find comfort in the idea that one day they will be able to live together as a family throughout all eternity. However, with all the details LDS leaders have given to this teaching, the logical possibility breaks down.
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Singlehood in Mormonism
By Eric Johnson In the January 2005 Ensign, an official monthly LDS Church magazine, LDS Seventy Clate W. Mask Jr. referred to Doctrine and Covenants 14:7 where Jesus supposedly told Joseph Smith, “If you keep my commandments and endure to the end you shall have eternal life, which gift is the greatest of all the…