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Well, keep in mind that one of the hallmarks of the Church is that our directives and requirements from God are not confined to only the time between our birth and our death. After all, it would also be inconceivable to accept that the Apostle Paul would not be there. Yet he was definitely not married (I Corinthians 7).
The questions is not how things will be sorted out in the next life, but whether Jesus, during his mortal life, was married.
“Well, keep in mind that one of the hallmarks of the Church is that our directives and requirements from God are not confined to only the time between our birth and our death. After all, it would also be inconceivable to accept that the Apostle Paul would not be there. Yet he was definitely not married (I Corinthians 7).
The questions is not how things will be sorted out in the next life, but whether Jesus, during his mortal life, was married.”
We have no evidence that during the short time that the Saviour was in the spirit world that he was married or sealed to anyone, and we have many evidences from the scriptures that in the resurrection there “is no marrying or giving in marriage”. He is now resurrected so this could not have been done by proxy. The Saviour is our Great Exampler in all things, he was baptised to fulfill all righteousness so why would not He be married.
In the temple only those who are married on earth can be sealed together so again this would mean Jesus Christ must have been married. As far as Paul is concerned how do we know that he did not marry after his letter to the saints in Corinth? If we say the Saviour was not married her on the earth, you will have to say that Brigham Young, Orson Pratt and many others were wrong, I for myself could not accept this Jeff Walsh
jeffwalshgen wrote:you will have to say that Brigham Young, Orson Pratt and many others were wrong
Or that they were guilty of imperfect understanding and filled in the gaps with personal speculation. I do not think it disloyal to come to this conclusion. Even some of BY’s contemporaries believed him to be wrong in some of his opinions, yet they still supported and upheld him as the Prophet (rightful leader of the church). For us – almost 200 years later and with the benefit of both additional access to secular knowledge and the additional “light and knowledge” that has been revealed to the church in the interim through revelation – I believe it would paint us into a corner to postulate that these great men were never incorrect about anything. That doesn’t appear to be the Gospel plan as I understand it.
jeffwalshgen wrote:you will have to say that Brigham Young, Orson Pratt and many others were wrong
I will simply say that BY and others in that era had no special knowledge, understanding, or revelation from God on this topic. So when they made a statement about a 50-50 proposition like Jesus being married, that they may have been right or they may have been wrong… but they weren’t right BECAUSE they said it. After all, BY was the man that brought us institutionalized polygamy and the priesthood/temple ban.I’m not saying Jesus wasn’t married… only that, in my opinion, we can’t know. I understand your logic. If it makes sense for you, then great. I don’t think there is anything in Mormonism that would be offended if we learned definitively that Jesus was or wasn’t married. That’s one of the cool things in the StayLDS community; people believe wildly different things, and it is OK.
It’s just that I don’t believe that you can prove something like this based solely on a careful path through the intricacies of Mormon doctrine… especially not in an environment such as this, where most don’t accept all statements in our own scriptures, let alone by past church leaders, to be 100% infallible word of God.
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