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Ok now I have read your intro! What an interesting story. So much of it rings familiar to me. My FIL is not a member while MIL is an active one and over the past two decades of being in the family I have seen how having two religious points of view does not have to make a problem in a marriage. I grew up very active and pitying any family that was split on the whole religion thing. I thought “How can you be happy if you don’t believe the same as your spouse?”. My in-laws on the other hand have a very peaceful and happy marriage not beloging to the same religious philosophy. He will attend sacrament meeting with her occasionally, knows and has a repoir with members of their ward (they have seemed to back off about getting him to investigate for many years now), and she is like me quite the middle mormon in practice though I haven’t had many conversations with her about it. I think as long as the spouses respect each others’ views then it can work very well. It sounds from your post that you have this. I love it when others who leave the church and religion in general can have a friendly and non-hostile attitude about it. I think that shows great maturity. I agree with some of the things Bill Maher says, but he is so mean and hostile about it that I can’t stomach the feeling he gives. I think he could be funny and kinder and make a better point. John Stewart and Stephen Colbert are perfect examples of this. I love to watch their show and even when they made fun of the church before I was in the position I am now, I could laugh at myself with them and not feel offended. Maybe that is just my nature…
Anyway, welcome !
Old-Timer wrote:Frankly, I don’t think ANY temple marriage in which the spouses do NOT become one is a celestial marriage – and I believe ANY non-temple marriage in which the spouses truly do become one IS a celestial marriage. The latter simply hasn’t been ratified by God yet (when viewed from a classic Mormon perspective). I view proxy temple work as a validation of this concept – that God will ratify those marriages where the couple became one, even if they were not sealed in this life.
I realize the what I am about to say is a gross oversimplification, but it needs be for the purpose of the couplet that springs to mind.
Protestants believe salvation is an event, Mormons see salvation as a process. Mormons see celestial marriage as an event, Protestants believe celestial marraige/ becoming one is a process.
Roy wrote:Protestants believe salvation is an event, Mormons see salvation as a process. Mormons see celestial marriage as an event, Protestants believe celestial marraige/ becoming one is a process.
cool way to look at this — I think they’re both processes.
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