What happens to families...

[Guest TheLutheran]

. . .But this is kinda like someone saying here I am giving you a thousand dollars free and clear and you say No thanks....i am good with my 100.

Yep . . . that would be me.

[Maya]

Mailis:Mailis, if you are speaking about the resurrection, I must disagree. Evangelical Lutherans believe in the resurrection of the body, it says so in the Apostles' Creed, and it's recited weekly. Concerning the belief in families forever - nothing specific regarding "families living together forever" is taught as doctrine, but I believe most Lutherans (speaking as one) believe that when they are resurrected they will see familiar faces, so to speak, since we will be ourselves, just gloriously different.

It is a long time since I was a lutheran, but that is what I have bumped into lately, they just dont know! Ofcourse a possibility is that the preasts nowadays dont know themselves what they are supposed to believe... and as I understand you can believe what ever suits you to be a lutheran.

Yes the creed... people say it, when ever they are in the Church which for most is at a tine of confirmation, babtisement, marriage of a familymember.. sometimes in Christmas and ofcourse when they are dead, but that wont help much. Most Lutheransa are inactive and if you ask an active lutheran so maybe these days they say that the body will ressaurect but mostly they dont know and preasts wont push theim the beilef when they once in 5 years attend.

I remember teaching that we all ressaurect, get our body back and are happy.

My both grandfathers were lutheran preasts and one of them theologian leading dean, professor what ever. I almost become one too.

[Twospirit]

"Matthew 22

Marriage at the Resurrection

23That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 24"Teacher," they said, "Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and have children for him. 25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. 27Finally, the woman died. 28Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?"

29Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 31But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, 32'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'[a]? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."

33When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching."

Heavenguard

Interesting that this scripture is found in Mark 12:18-27 and Luke 20:27-39 and spoken by Jesus Himself.....

[Guest TheLutheran]

. . .when ever they are in the Church which for most is at a tine of confirmation, babtisement, marriage of a familymember.. sometimes in Christmas and ofcourse when they are dead, but that wont help much. Most Lutheransa are inactive . . .

We hosted an exchange student from Finland four years ago and he was Lutheran (the official religion of Finland, right?), as are we. He was astonished that we actually went to church every week AND practiced our faith as a daily part of our lives. I can see where you would conclude that Lutherans don't know anything or believe whatever. It was a very interesting cultural exchange as I believe we learned as much (or perhaps more) from him as he learned from us.

I loved his attitude when he first arrived -- he thought all Americans were stupid, fat and lazy. Most of his perceptions of U.S. life came from television so he thought we all drove around in fancy cars and had house parties all the time. We got that straightened out within a week of living with us on the farm ten miles from town! It was very enlightening! :)

[Hemidakota]

random question just poppped into my mind. i remember hearing/reading something a while back that said that eve was one of adam's(miochael's) wives in the premortal existence. is that true? if it is, was there marriage before this world?

When Joseph Smith saw in the vision of both Adam and Eve, they both were sitting upon their own thrones together....he did not see any other beside him or her.