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Who Are These Children Sealed To? - Page 2

What does it really mean to be sealed to someone? I'm talking of a parent to child relationship. We will all be adults in the eternities and if you are in the CK you will be sealed to your spouse. Your parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren etc will all be sealed to their respective spouses. I am not sure if I understand the sealed relationship in the eternities betweeen generations. Suppose my parents divorced and I am sealed to my mother and step father. Yet, my biological father is also in the CK and I can visit and have a relationship with him just as I can my step father. I don't see any significance or advantage to being the step father who has the sealing, over my biological father who I am not sealed to.

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The way I see it, eventually we will all be sealed to one another, if our genealogy is completed and all the sealing ordinances performed. We'll be one huge Family of God, all the way back to Adam and Eve, in an immense matrix with different levels.

So, as you say, gaucho: is there really any advantage to being sealed to one father rather than another, if everyone ends up in the "CK"? I couldn't even begin to guess.

Who Are These Children Sealed To? Studies Doctrine Mormon

My own personal view not based on any doctrinal readings or anything that I have read is that it does no matter who the children are sealed to as long as they are sealed, being mindful here that they are heavenly father's children and secondly a couple of years ago the the Stake Relief Society president and some members of the highcouncil gave presentations to each ward concerning teenage pregnancy and how through lds services members of their family or other worthy lds members are able to adopt these children and seal them in the temple and allow these young teenagers to finish school and go on with their lives.

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A friend loaned me their Temple cancellation letter from Pres. Hinckley and this is what it said.

"Children born in the covenant or sealed to parents are assured the right and privilege of eternal parentage based upon their individual faithfulness and agency. If such children remain worthy, these birthright blessings remain secure in the event that the sealing of their parents as husband and wife is canceled."

President Gordon B. Hinckley
20 Nov 2002

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O.K. Now could you translate what that actually means. It says they assured the right and privilege of eternal parentage. It doesn't say they remain sealed to their birth parents.

Does this mean they will be "assigned" to some other righteous family. There parents won't be sealed to each other so the can't be sealed to them, can they?

Who Are These Children Sealed To?

As far as I understand, Sealing is significant as it shows our Birthright back to Adam. The line it goes through is not as important as attaining that right through righteousness and saving ordinances. Therefore, they will still receive all the blessings given them through this ordinance even if it will be done via someone else in the next life.

Who These Children Sealed To - Page 2

It means that even if the parents get a Temple Divorce the children will still be sealed to the parents and which of the parents remains the most worthy the children will go with them.

Who These Children Sealed To Mormon Doctrine Studies - Page 2

I do not know if there is more to the letter that you have not quoted, but in reading it I do not see where it says within the quote that they (children) are still sealed to their parents and where one of the parents is worthy they get them.