and whos to say that the heaven you get to wont be infested with men? dirty stupid stinking men? oh and this actually has puzzled me a lil bit... why would a mormon wife on earth be ok with sharing her husband in heaven?
Like I said, that is unfortunate. It is easily the most plausible theory for how we came to be and there is a plethora of scientific evidence supporting it.
i think that they are eternal and wise and all that stuff too, they just cant create earths, and clearly, a woman would do a way better job than our current clusterfuck
My attempt at humor may have been misleading. Let me give some background information. The family is the central unit in the gospel and the family unit exists beyond the grave assuming all the proper steps are taken. Marriage in particular is important. 1 Corinthians 11:11 - "Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord." That means a man and a woman individually are incapable of reaching exaltation (God's life) without each other. They must be bound together (sealed) as one. So without my wife I could not reach my full potential, and neither could she. So my wife (my goddess) is more than baby a maker. My wife is more to me than simply a vessel to bare my children. She is my help meet and my equal in our relationship as husband and wife. Do I paint a room in my house without my wife's consideration? No. I'm pretty sure I'd take her input when deciding whether I want spiders in the world I create. As a goddess, she would be elevated to the same degree I would be. I'm still being a little light hearted here, but maybe I've explained it a little better.
So why doesn't Jesus have a wife? By your description, it seems like we're getting short changed or something.
I've wondered the same thing. Maybe because the work can be spread out more? I don't think I'd want more than one wife. Isn't one hard enough sometimes? In all seriousness, I honestly don't know what the makeup will be. That idea comes from the following passage: 2 Nephi 14:1 - "And in that day, seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach." Reproach meaning, their inability to have children.
He doesn't? See it's these types of things that get Mormon's into trouble with other people. For everything we believe, it makes sense that Jesus would be married, yet there's no documented evidence that he is. The idea that he is isn't defeated by this. We believe that people can still be married after the resurrection, so hypothetically, even if Christ wasn't married while a mortal he still could get married at some point. I'm not saying he is, and I'm definitely not saying the Mormon church says he is, just that it appears from what I believe that he is or most likely will be at some point...
Okay, I think the commonly held christian belief is that Jesus is/was not married. I know proper Catholics DEFINITELY do not think he ever married.
And I agree with you. I doubt he was married while a mortal. And yes, I'm pretty sure Catholics DEFINITELY do not think he ever married. The whole celibacy thing tends to strike in the face of Christ being married. We obviously disagree with the Catholics on the celibacy thing.
