God's Plan for Marriage and Family

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Readings

 * 1) "The family is ordained of God. Marriage between man and woman is essential to His eternal plan."
 * 2) “Marriage is more than your love for each other... In your love you see only your two selves in the world, but in marriage you are a link in the chain of the generations, which God causes to come and to pass away to his glory, and calls into his kingdom. In your love you see only the heaven of your own happiness, but in marriage you are placed at a post of responsibility towards the world and mankind. Your love is your own private possession, but marriage is more than something personal﻿- it is a status, an office. Just as it is the crown, and not merely the will to rule, that makes the king, so it is marriage, and not merely your love for each other, that joins you together in the sight of God and man... So love comes from you, but marriage from above, from God.”
 * 3) Four things for success of the divine plan:
 * 4) Creation of the Earth
 * 5) Condition of mortality
 * 6) Redemption from the Fall
 * 7) The setting for physical birth and spiritual rebirth

Session 3

 * 1) "No other Gods have delivered you..."
 * 2) When things are hard and trials seem insurmountable, trust in the Lord. Teach to search the source of all truth.
 * 3) Many now claim that truth is relative and that there is no such thing as divine law or a divine plan. such a claim is simply not true. There is a difference between right and wrong. Truth is based upon the laws God has established for the dependability, protection, and nurturing of his children. Eternal laws operate in and affect each of our lives, whether we believe them or not.

Session 4

 * 1) Restructure our view of self, life, and the universe.
 * 2) What is our divine nature?
 * 3) What does it mean to be created in the image of god?

Podcast 1

 * 1) We are created in God's image- male and female
 * 2) "All men and women are in the similitude of the universal Father and Mother and are literally the sons and daughters of Deity."
 * 3) Moses 1:39 "For behold, this is my work and my glory- to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man."