Frederic P Miller

Celestial Marriage Frederic P Miller

Publisher Marketing: High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Celestial marriage (also called the New and Everlasting Covenant and Eternal Marriage) is a doctrine unique to Mormonism and Swedenborgianism, particularly The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and branches of Mormon fundamentalism. Within Mormonism, celestial marriage is an ordinance associated with a covenant that always takes place inside temples by those authorized to hold the sealing power. As such, the only people allowed to enter the temple are those who hold an official temple recommend. In the marriage ceremony a man and a woman make covenants to God and to each other and are said to be sealed as husband and wife for time and all eternity. The Latter-Day Saint distinguishes itself on this point, citing Matthew 16:19 and 18:18, from some other religions by emphasizing that marriage relationships and covenants made in this life will continue to be valid in the next life. In the 19th century the term celestial marriage often referred specifically to the practice of plural marriage, a practice which the LDS Church abandoned in 1890. The term is still used in this sense by Mormon fundamentalists not affiliated with the mainstream LDS Church.