Posted by:
Elder Berry
(
)
Date: May 12, 2020 07:23PM
thedocumentor Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Can someone tell me what Mormon teaching is about
> the purpose of sex?
"Marriage between a man and a woman is the authorized channel through which premortal spirits enter mortality." ~Bednar
> For example, does the church teach that the
> purpose of sex is reproduction?
"The body is an essential part of the soul. This distinctive and very important Latter-day Saint doctrine underscores why sexual sin is so serious. We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose and processes of life, ‘the very key’ to life, as President Boyd K. Packer once called it." ~Holland
> If that is true, the obvious rejoinder is, "so you
> don't perform marriage ceremonies on people who
> are biologically unable to reproduce?"
"Every person who was ever born on earth is our spirit brother or sister."
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/spirit-children-of-heavenly-parents?lang=engSo you can be sealed to anyone, biological reproduction is trumped by spiritual reproduction.