Why Get Sealed?

[Snow]

That must have been a scale you invented Snow for your own benefit. :)

That's hardly the point Pam. Regardless of who invented it for what purpose, numbers are numbers and don't lie.

[Snow]

Where might your score be on the Creutzfeldt–Jakob Scale of Homeopathic Nutrition?

9.7, 9.8, 9.9, 9.6, and 8.4 from the Soviet judge.

[Dravin]

Yes we were inactive, deprived, young, and pathetically lonely when we got together, and again, we care about each other as human beings and friends. But eternity is different. Others can continue to judge and look down there nose at me with their "Holier Than Thou Art" position if they want... But walking around thinking you are better than other people is called vanity. And and unfortunately for them, vanity is yet another impure thing you must be cleansed of, in order to be TRULY worthy through and through. Plus, vanity is usually just the tip of the iceberg, and a sign of even darker things lying below the surface. Kinda shooting themselves in the foot with that, and they might be a little disappointed exactly where in heaven they end up, hehe :)

Thank you, I needed my daily dose of irony as I grow anemic without it... or is that iron?

[Vanhin]

What it means to be sealed, quite literally means that our names are recorded on earth and in heaven. There is nothing magical involved. Our marriage is recorded, and covenants made. If we live up to the covenants we make in the temple, then we are sealed unto everlasting life. Otherwise, our names will be blotted out. If a holy act, such as marriage is not sealed (recorded by proper authority), then it doesn't exist in the eternities.

Now, the nature of this ordinance consists in the power of the priesthood, by the revelation of Jesus Christ, wherein it is granted that whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Or, in other words, taking a different view of the translation, whatsoever you record on earth shall be recorded in heaven, and whatsoever you do not record on earth shall not be recorded in heaven; for out of the books shall your dead be judged, according to their own works... (D&C 128:8)

Read the entire section 128, and notice how many times the word "recorded" is used, and every time you read it thinl "sealed" or "bind".

Regards,

Vanhin

[mordorbund]

[i and my husband] care about each other, but aren't even sure if we wanna stay married for the rest of our earthly lives, let alone eternity. We're just too different.

I don't think anyone here can give you a good reason to get sealed for eternity if you don't already have a good reason to be married for life.

[pam]

I don't think anyone here can give you a good reason to get sealed for eternity if you don't already have a good reason to be married for life.

[Blackmarch]

You can't receive the highest kingdom of glory.

in addition to that you have no promise of family, and of the blessings and joy that comes from such.