I see. So even a child can understand. And the influence of the apostate Church has diminished the ability of its members to engage in critical thinking.
My remark had to do with critical thinking, yes, and with the use of pronouns and verbs and construction of sentences and paragraphs (i.e. if one takes the verses and puts them into paragraph format). I didn’t say anything about an “apostate church”. But people often will not take words of a scriptural passage and think about them as an "experience’ where people were actually there, on the scene, listening.
Jesus was the absolute Master teacher, the absolute best user of language who has ever walked upon the earth. One who thinks He would take the subject of a paragraph, use the verb that continued with the theme and the subject and greatly expand the subject without inserting a new subject, does not give Him much credit for being a Master teacher or a Master user of language. I know of no precedent in any other passage in the New Testament where “they” suddenly embraces a universal meaning when just before it had a specific meaning about a specific, clearly identified subject. The pronoun “they” is added for us in English, but in many languages the pronoun is understood within the verb conjugation.
Put another way, “Sadducees” is a small subset of the “set” that is “all of humankind”. If a subject begins with a subset, a good user of language stays with that subset to make their meaning clear, if they are using understood pronouns in the way Jesus used them. He doesn’t change to the “universal set” without announcing that there is now a new, expanded, “universal” subject for what He is about to say and teach.
… It assumes that we must take the Mormon position which can not imagine anything greater than purely human relationships…
Actually, I have explained already that Latter-day Saints view an eternal marriage relationship as far beyond a “human relationship”, but it does get its start in this life, just as Jesus said of Adam and Eve’s “human relationship”–that it was a God-given relationship, and that they were given to each other as “help meets”.
They were given to each other to build each other’s happiness, joy, fulfillment, wholeness, a God-given “oneness” that is selfless and service-oriented, and requires heartfelt communication and sharing and forgiving and changing and growing.
Please show me where, after the fall, that God said they were given to each other for eternity.
Jesus said “what God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” It is a simple concept. God did the joining. He created a union. He is eternal. He can certainly create an eternal union.
Jesus did not say, “God hath joined them together and in eternity their marriage will be dissolved and they will be married to me.”
