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* JST= Joseph Smith Translation
** From the Book of Mormon
++ LDS Scripture given through Joseph Smith and other prophets
## (In the Pearl of Great Price)
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Families
Source: (http://www.mormon.org/learn/0,8672,1451-1,00.html)
The Family: A Proclamation to the World
In 1995, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” to encourage individuals and governments to strengthen
the family.
The proclamation addresses our relationship to God and the importance of marriage and family relationships in this life and in eternity.
Read “The Family: A Proclamation to the
World.” The family is central to God’s plan for us.
Our families provide a setting for much of the growth we experience in life.
In our families we love, serve, teach, and learn from each other. We share our joys and our sorrows. Family ties may bring us difficult challenges, but they also
give us some of our greatest happiness.
While we cannot choose the conditions of our birth, we can choose each day to make our families stronger and happier.
It is possible for individuals to return to the presence of God and for families to be united eternally. Marriage is
part of God’s plan Marriage between a man and a woman has been an integral part of God’s plan from the beginning. God
taught Adam that “it is not good that . . . man should be alone”, and Eve became his companion.
(Gen. 2: 18) And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
(1 Corinthians 11:11) Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
Families can be together forever
Family relationships can last forever—not just for this life.
Just as some of life’s sweetest joys can come through family associations, the loss of a beloved family member can be a source
of our deepest sorrows.
But death does not need to be the end of our relationships with cherished loved ones. The Lord revealed to Joseph Smith that the “same sociality which exists
among us here will exist among us there [in eternity], only it will be coupled with eternal glory” (Doctrine and Covenants 130:2).
Family members who accept the Atonement of Jesus Christ and follow His example can be together forever through sacred ordinances performed in God’s holy temples.
++ (Doctrine and Covenants 132: 18) And again, verily I say unto you, if a man marry a wife, and make a covenant with
her for time and for all eternity, if that covenant is not by me or by my word, which is my law, and is not sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, through him
whom I have anointed and appointed unto this power, then it is not valid neither of force when they are out of the world, because they are not joined by me,
saith the Lord, neither by my word; when they are out of the world it cannot be received there, because the angels and the gods are appointed there, by whom they
cannot pass; they cannot, therefore, inherit my glory; for my house is a house of order, saith the Lord God.
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