Posted on 05/05/2011 11:14:17 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
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Wow, this is going to make some lds defender’s heads explode.
I have a question: Yesterday on tv we learned that Marie Osmond remarried her first husband. I’ve always loved the Osmonds and Marie so I am very happy for her family. My question is about their sealing. Her brother, Donny, said this was great for them all because they were already sealed for all time in Heaven. So in the Mormon faith, does a divorce not cancel out a sealing?
The wedding factory. Push ‘em through, invade their personal space and get ‘em out the door.
All that time, expense, and divided families(the unworthy cannot attend the ceremony; they wait outside) for a false promise of becoming gods.
This, and a list of about 99 other things, distinguish Mormonism from true Christianity.
I don't accept the religion, but knowledge is a good thing!
I was wondering about that myself.
I’ve always heard Marie Osmond was prone to depression. I don’t know anything about her personally, but I wonder if a lot of it was exacerbated by that perhaps she might have felt a failure, as if she was going against “God’s ordinances” because that marriage failed.
You know, my life isn’t working out because I am disobeying God. Even a son from that marriage committed suicide.
Alternatively, if she were never sealed to anyone else and the first sealing was never cancelled, could they be "re-sealed"?
The one opinion that seems to hold is...if you and your family are famous mormons and the church has benefited greatly from your tithing for 50 years, you could prolly do just about what you wanted to do.
It is double for mormon women. They are unable to attain godhood WITHOUT being married to a devout, pure morman high priest on the god-track. Then he has the option not to call her through the veil as well as having more ‘wives’ in the afterlife.
Imagine the pressure of trying to be perfect for an god-in-the-works man’s ego.
Thank you.
I guess that is what I’m asking - if a Mormon is sealed, then divorces, is there another ceremony or process that cancels that sealing?
That is so bad. I respect Mormons, because like everyone else, they are just trying their best to find a spiritual way. But the idea of multiple wives - that is so much like Islam. A religion started by someone you suspect is really just trying to create his own idea of a utopia.
That utopia was revealed in Nauvoo, IL by which time Joseph smith had some 30+ 'wives', many concurrently married to another man!
It found its fruition in the Utah Territory under Brigham Young, where women were treated like cattle by the mormon leadership.
The 'revelation' smith had from God 'authorizing' plural marriage had never been repealed by any mormon prophet since, even though their prophet said they would stop the earthly practice - it is carried forward as a future practice in 'heaven'.
The demand to be 'perfect' in mormonism results in higher rates of depression and associated medications. I think divorce would be higher if not for the extreme social/family pressures exerted to keep things stable.
And watch - in Canada right now (and soon to come to the US) is the drive to make polygamy legal - based upon the redefinition of marriage brought about by the gay rights movement. If Canada legalizes it - what the migration north from Utah.
Mark 12:25 (New International Version, ©2011)
25 When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
http://www.equippingchristians.com/Does-Scripture-Support-Eternal-Marriage.php
You know that. . . and I know that. . . but according to mormon doctrine - the 'living' prophet pronouced a different 'revelation' and because they have a burning in their bosom testifying that the prophet is true the new 'revelation' is the correct one.
Speaking of polygamy, I just spent the afternoon in Colorado City. I was waiting in line at the post office and couldn’t help laughing to myself regarding the cowboy that came in with three little beauties (not) done up properly with their hair in that silly braid, all three wearing ugly grey dresses that hung to the floor, no make up and dour faces like none other. I had to look away as I didn’t want the cowboy to catch me grinning.
What are these stupid people thinking?
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