Truman G. Madsen on Celestial Marriage
“Brothers and sisters, we have the unique insight that heaven and earth are to come together, that what many religions have split apart have been comprehensively united. For example, having a physical body, which the Lord calls the “temple of the Lord,” and having also a spirit, which constitutes a soul (D&C 88:15), and the Lord Jesus Christ lived and died to exalt the soul, the whole of man, and wholeness ultimately means holiness. And the holiest of all achievements in this world and the next is to give your powers of creation and procreation mutually in the sacred relationship of marriage… The glory of God is spoken of in section 132, and the fulness of the glory of the Father is the fulness and continuations of the seeds (verse 19). No more literal word could be used for the power bred in us by reason of our own birth to beget posterity. Family is glory, and will be extended, intensified, and increased forever. This earth will become the home of the truly sanctified who will follow in the mirror image of the Father and his Companion, who opened up for us this way of immortality and eternal life.” Truman G. Madsen, Foundations of Temple Worship, BYU-I Devotional Address, October 2004
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