Marriage Sealings After Death

[DragonLancer]

We have a few couples in our ward where the wife converted the husband -- or, he was converted after he investigated at her desire. But your story above is very much like another couple in our ward. Husband totally disinterested, and only showing up for certain activities (e.g. Christmas dinner), and almost never attending church. He was a nice guy, though and let his wife raise their children in the Church, no problem. One son went on a mission, a daughter married in the temple, and so on. Then the wife died in an accident at home, and after an interval of time, her widowed husband sold the house and moved away, so not even any further contact with the ward that knew him. Still totally disinterested.

I hate to be the bearer of uncomfortable facts, but will a man or a woman (my brother is married to a staunch atheist) who has essentially ignored the Gospel their entire lives be able to bear a celestial marriage when they couldn't bear the gospel?

As to those who are married to unbelieving spouses who are steadfast in their unbelief, I am convinced that their faithfulness to their spouse will be counted as righteousness, and thus they will be worthy of a great reward. But as for the unbelieving spouse I don't hold out much hope.

 

I believe that every case will be judged differently.  I hold out a lot of hope because Jesus Christ is the judge of all of these people, and some he will have reason to allow into exaltation, and others he will not.  The same is so for people who have gone inactive or left the Church or excommunicated and then died.  The Lord is the judge and we should remain positive about everyone's situation and hope for the best for all of them.  Reason would say that not all of them will make it, but hope would lead to the belief that some segment of them can.

[Jeanne]

WARNING: CANDOR ALERT!

 

I have a bad habit of being perfectly candid with people who ask me for this kind of advice.  If you're not wearing sufficient armor to take my candid advice, please stop reading now!

 

Presumably, you she married your her husband because you love she loves her husband enough as-is to spend the rest of her life with him.  I would hope that anyone in that situation went into it with eyes wide open. Temple ordinances are important; they are wonderful; but even as important and as wonderful as they are, even they don't provide a good enough excuse for one spouse to tell the other, "Honey, I know I said I loved you enough to marry you as you are, but ..."

 

My advice to you your friend is that, since she married her husband because she loves him, she should do exactly that, even if it means he never goes to the temple in this life.  The time to get depressed about the prospects of not being able to obtain temple ordinances with someone in this life was while you were still engaged to him and/or after you broke off the engagement as a result.  Absent abuse, addiction, or some other equally-grave situation in which one partner refuses to change, we love the people we marry and we commit to them ... no matter what.  And that's my advice: Love him.

 

Thanks for enduring to the end of this candid advice.

One has to wonder how many couples who have truly loved (which is above all things) each other have left the relationship for the church.  In my own mind, I don't believe anymore that God separates love..the connection and overall truth of love prevails..and why not?

[theplains]

Would the church today authorize single women to be sealed to Brigham Young if these

women believed they would become his polygamous wives in the resurrection?

 

Thanks

Jim

 

[JLHPROF]

Would the church today authorize single women to be sealed to Brigham Young if these

women believed they would become his polygamous wives in the resurrection?

 

Thanks

Jim

 

I don't believe the Church today allows posthumous sealings to anyone that you weren't married to in mortality.

If a woman received personal revelation that she belonged in Pres. Young's family I think she'd have a very hard time convincing anyone in authority to allow it.

 

IF it were allowed they would be his polygamous wives in the next life.  There were hundreds of women who were sealed to Joseph Smith after his death.  Assuming all the sealings were valid Joseph is currently in the Celestial Kingdom with several hundred wives.