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Chris-WA
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Is it true that a temple-married man may remarry in the temple if his wife passes away, but a temple-married woman cannot do the same if her husband passes away? If so, why?
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Benedict54
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Hi Chris,
Yes , it is indeed true that a man can marry more than once in the Mormon temples while a woman may not. The Mormon church goes so far as to teach that a man will be allowed to have more than one wife in the “Celestial Kingdom” - the highest degree of Heaven in their theology. Why? I am not really sure. I think this doctrine/practice is to keep alive the doctrine of “Plural Marrige” or polygamy. It is interesting to note that the church changed their stance on polygamy while applying to be part of the USA. The federal govenment was quite reluctant to admit what would be come Utah because of this practice. Their “prophet” had a “revelation” that is was not necessary to practice polygamy.
Those who practice polygamy now days are generally members of the FLDS, an dissident group. The larger church based in Salt Lake City does not practice that doctrine and in fact excommunicates those who do .
My great great grandfather had 3 wives. I should tell you that I used to be LDS. I am so grateful that God has given me the privilege of being part of Holy Mother Church.
Yes , it is indeed true that a man can marry more than once in the Mormon temples while a woman may not. The Mormon church goes so far as to teach that a man will be allowed to have more than one wife in the “Celestial Kingdom” - the highest degree of Heaven in their theology. Why? I am not really sure. I think this doctrine/practice is to keep alive the doctrine of “Plural Marrige” or polygamy. It is interesting to note that the church changed their stance on polygamy while applying to be part of the USA. The federal govenment was quite reluctant to admit what would be come Utah because of this practice. Their “prophet” had a “revelation” that is was not necessary to practice polygamy.
Those who practice polygamy now days are generally members of the FLDS, an dissident group. The larger church based in Salt Lake City does not practice that doctrine and in fact excommunicates those who do .
My great great grandfather had 3 wives. I should tell you that I used to be LDS. I am so grateful that God has given me the privilege of being part of Holy Mother Church.
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Chris-WA
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I’m quite familiar with LDS doctrine, but this one issue seems to be one Mormons just don’t talk about. It’s not in their distant history–it’s now and continuing. I would really like to hear from LDS how they feel about this, and I’ve yet to hear an explanation as to why this is so.
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blueadept
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While I’m a Catholic who is civilly divorced from my LDS wife…
, I read this answer from askgramps
, I read this answer from askgramps
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amber_lux
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They probably keep hoping that Washington will change its mind about what constitutes a valid marriage.
Once same sex marriage is approved, polygamous marriage won’t be far behind.
I wouldn’t be surprised if either Connecticut, or Nevada became the first state to offer “small unit corporation”, which is functionally equivalent to a current marriage, except that it allows any number of share holders, of any combination of gender and sexual preference. Children born or adopted into the “small unit corporation” would automatically own shares in the corporation. Divorce would be dissolution of the “small unit corporation”.
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Prague
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Hey, leave Nevada out of this!
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smirknoff
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No. Both may get married in the temple, but the man may remarry for eternity, while the woman may only remarry for Time unless she gets her first sealing broken.
On the other hand, that rule is not applied to proxy ceremonies for the dead. A woman who remarried not only can be, but IS, by universal practice sealed for eternity to each of her husbands.
Why? I don’t know. I don’t think the Mormons know, either.
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paulp1002
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Both Women and Men can be resealed in the temple. It is easier however for men to be resealed. The women has to go thru the defined process to become unsealed from the original husband. My understanding is that it is along the same lines of getting a marriage annulled in the CC. I have heard that is it a difficult process, but I have also heard that it is easier than getting an annullement in the CC. It all depends on the reasoning, such as death, rape, abuse etc… For example, women whose husband have died in military combat may have their marriages unsealed, so they can be resealed when they meet another man. When I was attending the Singles Ward, there was a woman that had recently been unsealed because of abuse.
If I remember correctly, even though the woman has been unsealed and resealed to another husband, she is only sealed to the latter in the Celestrial Kingdon. However she can be sealed by proxy after death. The men on the other hand, they are still sealed to all the women that they were sealed to in the Temple, when or if they “enter” the Celestrial Kingdom. In my own opinion, I believe this is a way that they can still follow the teaching of Plural Marriage without violating the law.
If I remember correctly, even though the woman has been unsealed and resealed to another husband, she is only sealed to the latter in the Celestrial Kingdon. However she can be sealed by proxy after death. The men on the other hand, they are still sealed to all the women that they were sealed to in the Temple, when or if they “enter” the Celestrial Kingdom. In my own opinion, I believe this is a way that they can still follow the teaching of Plural Marriage without violating the law.
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