HEthePrimate Posted April 27, 2011 Report Posted April 27, 2011 I'm open to being refuted by any official Church sources; but the text of the sealing ordinance itself does not bind the children together--it only binds parent to child. Moreover, D&C 130:2 teaches that "that same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there, only it will be coupled with eternal glory, which glory we do not now enjoy." It does not identify a temple sealing as being a prerequisite to maintaining that sociality.My opinion is that the sealing is primarily about setting up the proper lineages through which thrones, kingdoms, principalities and powers are inherited. Social relationships may be indirectly influenced qualitatively through those lineages and blessings; but I don't think the sealing (or lack thereof) directly addresses, limits, or proscribes social relationships per se. A god who denies two people any interaction at all throughout the eternities merely because of the absence of a sealing bond, strikes me as a vindictive kind of a cuss antithetical to the Being our religion teaches us to worship.Fair enough. But if we are sealed to our parents, then we still have a connection through them with our siblings, no? My connection to my sisters and brother, after all, is based on having the same parents. Quote
Just_A_Guy Posted April 28, 2011 Report Posted April 28, 2011 I suppose so, nominally; but I have a hard time seeing what that connection would mean in practical terms. Quote
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