“I mean...seriously. The idea that I’m interacting with presumably functional adults who haven’t recognized the crystal clear, obvious and inherent truth of that statement, is literally a little bizarre to me. Surreal, even.
It boils down to being a question of believing what men have told me, or believing what God has created. Because if that statement is false, the reality of humanity God made for us, is false.
We were created in such a way as to require our participation in the propagation agreement we call “marriage”. Parts of our bodies and minds are solely devoted to it. Our psyches are designed to help us more easily participate in it. We have emotions useful only for that purpose. Joining into that agreement is usually difficult and always involves a huge portion of our lives. And there are many astonishing and important experiences that occur in that agreement between a man and a woman, that are impossible to experience any other way.
So, when I consider how much effort God expended in designing things that way, and how astonishingly beautiful it ends up being, it’s impossible to think life is complete without it.
If you think it is, you probably have some problems to work out.”
So can you provide a quote of this teaching of some minister claiming that people are incomplete, not whole, unless they get married?
Was the Apostle, therefore, arguing that he prefers people should be “incomplete” in times of tribulation?
1Co 7:7-9 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. (8) I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. (9) But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
There is a great deal of difference between the Mormon doctrine on marriage and the Christian one. The first and most obvious being that marriage has no change on your physical or spiritual self. You are not made “complete” by getting married, and you are not made “incomplete” by being divorced. I’d be really surprised to hear of any minister making such a claim.
“I mean...seriously. The idea that I’m interacting with presumably functional adults who haven’t recognized the crystal clear, obvious and inherent truth of that statement, is literally a little bizarre to me. Surreal, even."