Temple Sealings, Eternal Marriage and Family 

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I was born Mormon, but as a young person, I wanted to leave the church and attend an evangelical church. I thought they had the same idea of God and eternity that we had. However, when I began to understand that, for them, God would not be a man and that after our death we would also no longer have gender but be like the angels in heaven, who neither marry nor are given in marriage, these teachings seemed very strange to me. One day, I asked the pastor if, within their theology, God had regretted creating Adam and Eve to eventually eliminate gender. In fact, I thought I could just switch churches if I had any issues with mine, but this experience showed me that I am truly Mormon in every fiber of my being. If I leave the church, I have nowhere else to go. For me, the way we describe our theology is the best.

DO MORMONS HAVE A PRIESTHOOD?? In the opening sentences of the Book of Revelation, John the Apostle makes an astounding statement when he declares: "Blessings and peace to you from him who is, and was, and is coming, and from the seven spirits before his throne and from Jesus Christ, the trustworthy witness, the first born of the dead, the sovereign of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has released us from our sins by his own blood---he has made us a kingdom of priests for his God and Father---to him be the glory and power forever" (Goodspeed, verses 4-6). How incisive is this plain declaration by apostolic authority. Jesus Christ who is the sovereign of the kings of the earth, the one who continues to love us and who has released us from our sins through His own blood, has also made us "a kingdom of priests for His God and Father." Here is the true priesthood indeed. The Christian does not need any temples, secret services, rituals, and mysteries. His priesthood knows no special offices and power to communicate with the dead, something which the Mormon priesthood most definitely claims (see Leaves from a Tree, a catechism for young people by Mormon leader Charles Penrose, p.38). The Christian priesthood embraces all those who have been loosed from their sins by the blood of Jesus Christs, and who enjoy the perpetual love of the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. This concept is further developed in the writings of Peter, who affirms that: "You are the chosen race, the "royal priesthood." the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light; you were once no people, but are now God's people; once unpitied, but now pitied indeed..." ( I Peter 2:9 and 10, Goodspeed). In this context, the words of the apostle establish that long before there were any mythological Mormon priesthoods, there is a priesthood embracing all the redeemed, a "royal priesthood," neither Aaronic nor Melchizedek. This priesthood is composed of all consecrated "ambassadors for Christ," to quote the Apostle Paul, whose task is to exhort men to "be reconciled to God," "knowing the terror of the Lord" (II Corinthians 5:20 and 11). As has been observed, Mormonism places great stress upon the priesthood. But as we have also seen, it is not the priesthood described in the Scriptures. Instead they have substituted the revelation of "Prophet" Smith concerning a priesthood which has been changed (Hebrews 7:12) and a priesthood which by its nature is "untransferable" (7:24). The resulting dilemma is that they have no priesthood at all since their denial of the true Deity of Jesus Christ and the nature of God rules out the possibility that they could share in the priesthood of all believers. In order for one to be one of the "kingdom of priests to God His Father" (Revelation 1: 4-6) and a member of the "royal priesthood" (I Peter 2;9,10), one must first have undergone personal regeneration in a saving encounter of experience with the God-Man of Scripture---Jesus Christ. Mormon theology with its pantheon of gods, its perverted view of the Virgin Birth, and its outright condemnation of all churches as an "abomination" (Joseph Smith---History 1:19), removes itself from serious consideration as a form of Christianity. There is more to Christianity than the application of the Christian ethic. There is a great deal more to the Gospel than the similarity of terms, albeit redefined. Christianity is not just a system of pronouncements (though they are of vast importance). It is a living vital experience with the God of the Bible as He was incarnate in the man from from Nazareth. Mormonism, with its many doctrinal vagaries and outright denials of historic Christian teachings, disqualifies itself. And its priesthood, on which it places so much emphasis, is shown to be the antithesis of the divine revelation.