Are Families Really Forever?

[Indy Coug]

I believe we are eternal beings and are all connected, but don't believe there are any strings or conditions placed on it. To me baptisms for the dead and temple work are busy work intended for the benefit of the person doing the ordinance, not the person receiving it.

So you're discounting the numerous accounts of spirit beings thanking those who performed the ordinances on their behalf?

[UtahDan]

One of those guys seems to have facial hair. Is that allowed?

I hope so, some of us need a little facial hair to conceal the old double chin.

[Sleeping in EQ]

Isn't that the teaching (at least concerning those who enter into the covenant)? That vicarious temple work will someday be completed for everyone who's ever lived on the earth, etc.?

You have completely misunderstood my distinction.

I'm noting (again) your absolutist use of the word "the" (as in "the teaching").

[Sleeping in EQ]

Again, what does it mean to be sealed to someone?

This is a legit question, although it's more than I can get into today. Suffice it to say, it's one I think Church members should be pondering.

[Indy Coug]

Ultimately, being sealed means being sealed to God.

[clackamascoug]

Again, what does it mean to be sealed to someone?

Ultimately, being sealed means being sealed to God.

Exactly. How do we find out?

Is a sealing it like an alliance where we are protected from outside forces and powers (species?) we shouldn't/can't know about in our current probation?

[RC Vikings]

Again, what does it mean to be sealed to someone?

I want to hear someone ask this in GD so I can see everybody's head explode.

[Moliere]

I find the idea of all humankind being sealed to be more appealing than the the idea of sealings of contemporary, Western, nuclear families.

Weren't members of the church at one point sealed to the current prophet of the time? I seem to remember reading about that and how it was done away with in the very early 1900s. I'll need to see if I can find that reference.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Ultimately, being sealed means being sealed to God.

Which means what?

[Indy Coug]

Which means what?

That we will be able to freely commune with Him through the eternities? That we inherit all that He is and has?

[Sleeping in EQ]

That we will be able to freely commune with Him through the eternities? That we inherit all that He is and has?

"Commune" is an interesting word choice.

[clackamascoug]

That we will be able to freely commune with Him through the eternities? That we inherit all that He is and has?

Our birth by his hand, and God being our father, is not enough of a link to warrant communion and an inheritance?

Not everyone can inherit everything, so what we must inherit, is an ability to fish and not just be given a fish every so often.

[creekster]

I have always assumed (no doctrine, just assumption) that it is part of the convenant making process. We submit to God and willfully join ourselves to our families and to Him and so inherit blessings to which we would otherwise not be entilted. It is an expression of the scope of our agency and the importance of submitting to God, IOW.

[creekster]

Our birth by his hand, and God being our father, is not enough of a link to warrant communion and an inheritance?

Not everyone can inherit everything, so what we must inherit, is an ability to fish and not just be given a fish every so often.

If th eblessing is infinite then everyone can inherit it all.

[Indy Coug]

If th eblessing is infinite then everyone can inherit it all.

Is an eblessing something you can easily get via email?