In the Book of Mormon, it claims that the natural state of both God and Man is to be married, and actually mentions God's wife. However, I have tried and tried to find the passage for twenty years and have failed. I know it's there, but I would like to find the chapter and verse.
2006-12-19 11:25:19 · 16 answers · asked by Richard E 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have not actually spent twenty years looking for this. Maybe, I have dedicated a total of three hours, actually. But I know that there is many a Mormon who knows the answer to this, and I feel it would be more useful for me to ask an expert than to continue to search through the Book of Mormon, which is not exactly the most exciting book on the shelf, at least for me.
You have to admit, the idea of Mrs God is an interesting one. If marriage is the natural state of men, and man was created in God's image, then it seems somewhat logical that there should be a Mrs God.
I suppose we also have to assume that God is masculine.
I am not taking a stand on whether or not this is true, just where I can find it in the Book of Mormon.
2006-12-19 11:43:11 · update #1
I have not said that I wish to live my life according to the Book of Mormon. I think I would be at a loss to try, actually. But I am curious about Mrs God/ God's wife. Gotta admit, it's an interesting topic.
No one has a problem with Mrs Claus. Chances are that there was no Mrs Claus. I'm also pretty sure that there are no female elves in Santa's shop, either.
Nowadays, I am thinking that there are no elves at all: they are all Chinese, most likely.
I have read that there is a reference to God's wife in the Book of Mormon in several other books, but I can't recall where. (Sorry!)
Why do people assume that anyone who has a question about some religion wants to convert? Can't a person just be curious? Jeez!
2006-12-19 12:07:19 · update #2
You won't find this in the Book of Mormon. It isn't there. It is not in any of the scriptures although we do consider hymns to be like scriptures. You will find the reference in the following hymn:
http://mldb.byu.edu/ersnow2.htm
2006-12-19 11:54:29 · answer #1 · answered by whozethere 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You can't find any information about what you are looking for. The nature of God expounded by the Mormon church at the time was a lot more like that of the Bible.
It is something that I ask them about because present day LDS theology about God is not found in "the most correct book on the face of the earth" (how they call the Book of Mormon).
You have to wait until the D&C to start seeing it show up and the teaching doesn't get fully formed until you get to the Journal of Discourses.
2006-12-20 22:47:43 · answer #2 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Close, however no longer the best way you are contemplating. We feel in everlasting cycles. We feel that we have been born to a heavenly Mother and Father as spirits, we are actually God's kids, no longer figuratively. We all lived as spirit beings earlier than we have been born, however we have been like Adam and Eve, we had no abilities of well and evil (how would we? All we knew used to be happiness, there's no evil with God correct?). So we have been despatched to Earth to be demonstrated and to reap bodily our bodies, and we can keep our development once we die and are judged. Yes, it's believed that once we die we will be as gods, having our possess households in heaven (that is why Mormons have this sort of robust consciousness on households), so one can additionally ultimately ought to growth. However, it isn't a male-ego powered factor, and we do not recognise approximately the "many better halves" aspect, that is hypothesis. We additionally feel all of us had a aspect in developing the universe, with God the grasp planner and Jesus orchestrating. Theres no discrepency among female and male, each and every is simply as principal and need to paintings simply as tough and recieve same possibility, we're all judged. Also, we do not feel that Adam used to be born on an additional planet, however Earth. It's all rather strange sounding if the lesser doctrines don't seem to be understood, I can now see :) . The doctrine of a pre-mortal existence can also be discovered within the Pearl of Great Price. It additionally is going into the conflict in heaven and Lucifer's fall from grace. Kjelstad- I've on no account ever heard doctrine at the solar or moon. Where within the magazine of discourses? I could not discover it in vol.thirteen. If it is there, that is strange. We do not feel there are folks residing there. We do nonetheless feel there are different planets available in the market within the universe with our brothers and sisters on them. BUNNIES- That's a gorgeous horrible factor to mention. I am fully no longer racially prejudiced, and I'm certain that the black household in my residence ward could no longer respect it, nor the huge black populace of Mormons I met in London. And yeah, it sound bizarre, however does not it additionally sound best that we may not simply be residing a humdrum eternity floating round in heaven once we die? That we can nonetheless have our households? Gives me desire and some thing to appear foward to!
2016-09-03 13:13:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that Joseph Smith interpreted the personification of Wisdom in Proverbs as an actual Goddess.
2006-12-19 11:33:30 · answer #4 · answered by phoenix_slayer2001uk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just as you said, it is logical to think that since we believe marriage is a necessity for exaltation, then one must also assume there is a "Heavenly Mother" for all of us spirits...as well as our Heavenly Father. We believe one must be eternally married to gain exaltation in the Celestial Kingdom, so it would be necessary for God to also have been eternally sealed to his wife.
I doubt it is in any verse in the Book of Mormon, I would say it is more an assumed belief, logically.
Good luck in your search for truth.
2006-12-20 10:20:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what to say to someone who wants to live their life by an incomplete book written by Joseph Smith Jr., except maybe to ask WHY?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_116_pages
You can seach the text of the Book of Mormon at the link below and you won't find anything about God or Jesus having a wife. Good Luck!
2006-12-19 11:45:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
try visiting www.exponentii.org. when u get there click on blog. once on blog, scroll down to the bottom right and you'll see "archive" then click on the month of september, 06. scroll down till u get to the topic called "our heavenly mother" this instead of talking about god's wife, they're talking about heavenly mother. hope it helps a little
2006-12-19 11:38:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the book of Cookin&Cleanin
2006-12-19 11:27:43 · answer #8 · answered by Mr. Right 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Which wife?
2006-12-19 11:30:07 · answer #9 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't find it, because God is not married!
2006-12-19 11:30:37 · answer #10 · answered by Gerry 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋