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Seek Create Ideal Family - Mormon Doctrine Studies - Posted: 16th Oct, 2009 - 12:06pm
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Post Date: 14th Sep, 2009 - 2:07pm / Post ID: #
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"Through the restored gospel we learn there is an ideal family. It is a family composed of a righteous Melchizedek Priesthood bearer with a righteous wife sealed to him and children born in the covenant or sealed to them. With a mother in the home in an environment of love and service, the parents teach their children, through example and precept, the ways of the Lord and His truths. They fulfill their divinely appointed roles mentioned in the family proclamation. Their children mature by living teachings instilled from birth. They develop characteristics of obedience, integrity, love of God, and faith in His holy plan. In due course, each of those children seeks a companion with similar ideals and aspirations. They are sealed in the temple, bear children, and the eternal plan continues, with generation strengthening generation."
-- Richard G. Scott, 'First Things First,' Liahona, July 2001, 7
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| Through the restored gospel we learn there is an ideal family. It is a family composed of a righteous Melchizedek Priesthood bearer with a righteous wife sealed to him and children born in the covenant or sealed to them. |
So then a ideal family is "WIFE" not "WIVES?" Interesting.
Post Date: 8th Oct, 2009 - 1:03pm / Post ID: #
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The ideal family would be modeled after the pattern lived by Our Heavenly Father and that would necessarily mean wives over "wife."
But back to the quote: Isn't that a wonderful description of an LDS family? I'm still often amazed at this simple truth, and how the world so utterly rejects it. I can't see why people would not strive for this beautiful and peaceful family environment. I'm very grateful my wife gets to stay at home with our baby and be there for her, and we don't need to give her to some strangers during the day. It's such a blessing. I Love the Gospel! 
Edited: OldSouth on 8th Oct, 2009 - 1:19pm
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QUOTE The ideal family would be modeled after the pattern lived by Our Heavenly Father and that would necessarily mean wives over "wife."
Woa! That's your idea of "ideal"? I was thinking that the idea would be one based on love, you know the hymn "Love At Home", I think it gives us the ideal too. You can listen and reflect on the words, Source 5
Seek Create Ideal Family
Actually, for some reason, I have been contemplating the "ideal family," my observation would be that you would have to have a really really good husband to head the family, lead them, bless them, teach them, who is equal to, but in a different way, by his wife who rears the children, and then the children have to have a connection and deep love and respect for the parents. Yes, that does sound like the Primary song. I think this pattern will create the best results. But if that is not the hand you were dealt, success can still be obtained....I just think the full amount of blessings won't be realized; my opinion.
Old South, I know having more than one wife may sound fun, but most men can't get it right with just one wife..
Post Date: 16th Oct, 2009 - 12:06pm / Post ID: #
Seek Create Ideal Family Mormon Doctrine Studies
Do you not think God is perfect, and His family pattern which He - the creator of us all - lives in is the ideal? If so, then you would believe in the Gospel Joseph Smith preached, and Brigham Young and their successors.
QUOTE (Orson Pratt - The Seer @ p. 172)"We have clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom He begat our spirits as well as the spirit of Jesus His first Born, and another being upon the earth by whom He begat the tabernacle of Jesus, as his only begotten in the world. We have also probed most clearly that the Son followed the example of his Father, and became the great Bridegroom to whom kings' daughters and many honorable wives were to be married. We have also proved that both God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ inherit their wives in eternity as well as in time . . . If you do not want your morals corrupted, and your delicate ears shocked and your pious modesty put to the blush by the society of polygamists and their wives, do not venture near the New Earth; for polygamists will be honored there, and will be among the chief rulers in that Kingdom,"
QUOTE (Joseph F. Smith - Journal of Discourses Vol. 20 @ p. 28)Some people have supposed that the doctrine of plural marriage was a sort of superfluity, or non-essential to the salvation or exaltation of mankind. In other words, some of the Saints have said, and believe, that a man with one wife, sealed to him by the authority of the Priesthood for time and eternity, will receive an exaltation as great and glorious, if he is faithful, as he possibly could with more than one. I want here to enter my solemn protest against this idea, for I know it is false. There is no blessing promised except upon conditions, and no blessing can be obtained by mankind except by faithful compliance with the conditions, or law, upon which the same is promised. The marriage of one woman to a man for time and eternity by the sealing power, according to the law of God, is a fulfillment of the celestial law of marriage in part-and is good so far as it goes-and so far as a man abides these conditions of the law, he will receive his reward therefor[e], and this reward, or blessing, he could not obtain on any other grounds or conditions. But this is only the beginning of the law, not the whole of it. Therefore, whoever has imagined that he could obtain the fullness of the blessings pertaining to this celestial law, by complying with only a portion of its conditions, has deceived himself. He cannot do it.
Not trying to attack anybody, but I do not think the prophets were drunk when they declared such truths
QUOTE (Drea)but most men can't get it right with just one wife
Never would doubt that Drea. Just like the fact that most men will be damned (not reach the highest degree of Exaltation). Just because a majority of people are unable to do something doesn't mean that this thing would be wrong, or not an ideal. A lot of people where I grew up were rather incapable of rearing children, so they just left the kids to themselves, and we had a lot of juvenile crime in the area. That does not mean that having children is any less an ideal because of the incapabilities of some people. Quite to the contrary, we have always been taught that the ways of the Gospel are very different from the ways of the world, and much harder to follow (hence the "narrow" path). A lot of people don't seem to realize this, as I noticed in a lot of wards I've been to the general idea is that being Mormon and having gone through the temple for some reason warrants their Exaltation regardless of the rest of their lives (well, they would agree that killing and adultery would prevent Exaltation, but that's about it). This is not true though. Joseph Smith himself stated a large portion of the Mormons will be "damned." Why? They don't follow the gospel fully. So let's start to soften our hearts to the fullness that was given to us, instead of throwing rocks at the very gospel intended to safe us. We as a people should know better after all the knowledge we have been given!
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