In Elder David A. Bednar’s talk, Marriage is Essential to His Eternal
Plan (2006), he gives two doctrinal reasons to help us understand why
eternal marriage is essential to the Father’s plan.
Reason #1: “The natures of male and female spirits complete and perfect
each other, and therefore men and women are intended to progress
together toward exaltation.” I like to think of what God said after he had
created Adam. He said, “It is not good that man should be alone”.
Women offer comfort, compassion, and support to their husbands.
Women are uniquely adapted and in tune for this job. Men offer support,
security, and strength to their wives. They have unique, divinely given
masculine qualities that help them in this job. “Neither is the man
without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord”
(1 Corinthians 11:11)
Reason #2: “By divine design, both a man and a woman are needed to
bring children into mortality and to provide the best setting for the
rearing and nurturing of children.” A home with a loving mother and
father is the best setting to provide the physical and spiritual needs
of a child. Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females
contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same
characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children.
The Family: A Proclamation to the World states that “Children are
entitled to birth within the bonds of matrimony, and to be reared by a
father and a mother who honor marital vows with complete fidelity.”
A same sex marriage is naturally sterile and they have to employ the help
of a third party to even have a child. This complicates the child’s relationships
for the rest of their life. Satan works tirelessly to “confuse understanding about
gender, to promote the premature and unrighteous use of procreative power,
and to hinder righteous marriage precisely because marriage is ordained of
God and the family is central to the plan of happiness.” (Bednar. 2006)
I believe what Elder Bednar said. Marriage and family is where we can find
our greatest joy, so that’s where Satan is concentrating his efforts. If he can
destroy the traditional family, then he will succeed in making man “miserable
like unto himself”. My husband and children have given me such joy through-
out the years. I may have ended up alone, bitter, or selfish without them.
Plan (2006), he gives two doctrinal reasons to help us understand why
eternal marriage is essential to the Father’s plan.
Reason #1: “The natures of male and female spirits complete and perfect
each other, and therefore men and women are intended to progress
together toward exaltation.” I like to think of what God said after he had
created Adam. He said, “It is not good that man should be alone”.
Women offer comfort, compassion, and support to their husbands.
Women are uniquely adapted and in tune for this job. Men offer support,
security, and strength to their wives. They have unique, divinely given
masculine qualities that help them in this job. “Neither is the man
without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord”
(1 Corinthians 11:11)
Reason #2: “By divine design, both a man and a woman are needed to
bring children into mortality and to provide the best setting for the
rearing and nurturing of children.” A home with a loving mother and
father is the best setting to provide the physical and spiritual needs
of a child. Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females
contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same
characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children.
The Family: A Proclamation to the World states that “Children are
entitled to birth within the bonds of matrimony, and to be reared by a
father and a mother who honor marital vows with complete fidelity.”
A same sex marriage is naturally sterile and they have to employ the help
of a third party to even have a child. This complicates the child’s relationships
for the rest of their life. Satan works tirelessly to “confuse understanding about
gender, to promote the premature and unrighteous use of procreative power,
and to hinder righteous marriage precisely because marriage is ordained of
God and the family is central to the plan of happiness.” (Bednar. 2006)
I believe what Elder Bednar said. Marriage and family is where we can find
our greatest joy, so that’s where Satan is concentrating his efforts. If he can
destroy the traditional family, then he will succeed in making man “miserable
like unto himself”. My husband and children have given me such joy through-
out the years. I may have ended up alone, bitter, or selfish without them.
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