Yes. And we talk about things like that in Church quite a lot. For stuff like that, one typically asks God for forgiveness in prayer, and possibly tries to apologize and/or make restitution if they have offended someone. For things like felonies, adultery, and so on, we would also confess to the bishop.
yeah my LDS dad is real about that. we catholics have our own version though too. we have devotions and liturgies and such.There’s some truth to that–when we talk about Adam and Eve’s “transgression,” we are implying law-breaking, but not necessarily sinning. But honestly, in other contexts they are typically used as synonyms.
To be brutally honest, I think that most of the time people use the word “transgression” as a way to parlay archaic language into sounding more pious at Church. Mormons have all kinds of things like that.
We say “transgression” instead of “sin.”
We call General Authorities by their full first name, middle initial, and last name. So Tom Monson became “Elder Thomas S. Monson.”
If someone becomes President of the Church, they get an “even” tacked to the front of their name. So Elder Thomas S. Monson is now “our prophet, EVEN Thomas S. Monson.”
At church, people don’t pray for rain–they pray for “moisture.” I hope they get fog, the lackwits.
lol sure bdawg, every faith community does that to some extent. But I think mormon transgression does tend to be a little different, but I think you could also say a similar thing comparing and contrasting Catholic and protestant evangelical ‘feeling’ of sin. It’s all a little different, but that should be expected.There’s some truth to that–when we talk about Adam and Eve’s “transgression,” we are implying law-breaking, but not necessarily sinning. But honestly, in other contexts they are typically used as synonyms.
To be brutally honest, I think that most of the time people use the word “transgression” as a way to parlay archaic language into sounding more pious at Church. Mormons have all kinds of things like that.
We say “transgression” instead of “sin.”
We call General Authorities by their full first name, middle initial, and last name. So Tom Monson became “Elder Thomas S. Monson.”
If someone becomes President of the Church, they get an “even” tacked to the front of their name. So Elder Thomas S. Monson is now “our prophet, EVEN Thomas S. Monson.”
At church, people don’t pray for rain–they pray for “moisture.” I hope they get fog, the lackwits.
Hi Ralph,
Dude. Read the scripture you posted:
I am not sure that this is true. I have heard quite often that people who do not marry in this life, may get married in the afterlife, if they did not have the opportunity to marry on earth.
You’ve only heard that as a Mormon, not as a supposed Catholic. Since God Himself is the joyful fulfillment of all our desires, hoping for something less as that fulfillment does not give Him the glory He deserves.
To be specific, a culture which places excessive emphasis on sexuality would tend to believe that there is sex in heaven, so therefore there is marriage. The honest answer is “we don’t know” . I guess we will only find out as individuals if we get there.
Hi Why Me,
Like angels implies no sex in my mind.
Yes. Mormons see marriage as necessary for obtaining the highest level of heaven.
So JEsus is not in the Highest level Heaven? Or John the Baptist? Or Paul?
So who have you guys married John and Paul off to?
Oh my. Please tell me if it has ever been LDS thought that Jesus was married to anyone.
So who picks the luck lady? Who gives them away? And for the joking question: is dating done by proxy, too?
True enough
And what part of John’s life would have been acceptable to a woman? Besides, he probably had taken Essene vows of chastity, as he was an essene.
I am shocked by the marriage by proxy. Can you point me to LDS official teaching on this?
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Some early LDS leaders thought so, but that point of view never became the official stance. The LDS Church has been silent about this matter for quite a while. Not enough information to make a definitive judgment.
At this point, only people who were actually married (but not in Mormon temples) have the ceremony done for them by proxy. Others will be sorted out during Jesus’ Millennial reign.
John might have been an Essene, but that’s speculation. Also, the Essenes had some members who took vows of chastity, and others who didn’t, according to what I’ve read about them.
Go to www.lds.org, click the search tab, and do a search for “proxy sealing”. Lots of info will come up.
I don’t think your scripture does anything to negate the possibility of marriage in heaven.
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