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In the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), celestial (or eternal) marriage is a covenant between a man, a woman, and God performed by a priesthood authority in a temple of the church. [65] Celestial marriage is intended to continue forever into the afterlife if the man and woman do not break their ...
According to Mark 15:40, [41] Matthew 27:56, [42] John 19:25, [43] and Luke 23:49, [44] she was one of the women who remained at Jesus's crucifixion. The New Testament says she saw Jesus laid in a tomb. Mark 16:9 [45] reports that after his resurrection, Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene. The New Testament also says that Jesus had cast ...
Marriage is thought to consist of a covenant between the man, the woman, and God. The church teaches that in addition to civil marriage, which ends at death, a man and woman can enter into a celestial marriage , performed in a temple by priesthood authority, whereby the marriage and parent–child relationships resulting from the marriage will ...
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The practice primarily focuses on polygyny (one man having more than one wife) and not polyandry (one woman having more than one husband), as polyandry is implied to be unlawful by the Hebrew Bible's laws of adultery (e.g., Deuteronomy 22:22) and in the New Testament (e.g., Romans 7:3).
Marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God. The family is ordained of God and central to God's plan. All human beings are created in the image of God. As a beloved spirit son or daughter of Heavenly Parents, each person has a divine nature and destiny.
An 1880 Baxter process illustration of Revelation 22:17 by Joseph Martin Kronheim. The bride of Christ, or the lamb's wife, [1] is a metaphor used in number of related verses in the Christian Bible, specifically the New Testament – in the Gospels, the Book of Revelation, the Epistles, with related verses in the Old Testament.
We believe that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman (Gen. 2:24; Rom. 7:2; 1 Cor. 7:10; Eph. 5:22, 23). We deplore the evils of divorce and remarriage. We regard adultery as the only scripturally justifiable grounds for divorce; and the party guilty of adultery has by his or her act forfeited membership in the ...