Name: なぜ結婚なのか、なぜ家族なのか (Why Marriage, Why Family)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:00:52.000Z
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Above the Great West Door of the renowned Westminster Abbey

in London, England, stand the statues of 10 Christian martyrs

Included among them is Dietrich Bonhoeffer,

a brilliant German theologian born in 1906.

Bonhoeffer became a vocal critic of the Nazi dictatorship

He was imprisoned for his active opposition

and finally executed in a concentration camp.

are letters that sympathetic guards helped him smuggle out

of prison, later published as Letters and Papers from Prison.

One of those letters was to his niece before her wedding.

(quote): "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

Your love is your own private possession,

but marriage is more than something personal--it is

Just as it is the crown, and not merely the will to rule,

that joins you together in the sight of God and man.

So love comes from you, but marriage from above, from God"

In what way does marriage between a man and a woman

transcend their love for one another and their own happiness

In what sense does it come "from above, from God"?

To understand, we have to go back to the beginning.

Prophets have revealed that we first existed as intelligences

and that we were given form, or spirit bodies, by God,

thus becoming His spirit children--sons and daughters

There came a time in this premortal existence of spirits

that "we could have a privilege to advance like himself,"

our Heavenly Father prepared an enabling plan.

In the scriptures it is given various names, including

"the plan of salvation," "the great plan of happiness,"

were explained to Abraham in these words:

"And there stood one among them that was like unto God,

and he said unto those who were with him:

We will go down, for there is space there,

and we will make an earth whereon these [spirits] may

to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord

and they who keep their first estate shall be added upon; ...

and they who keep their second estate shall have glory

added upon their heads for ever and ever."

Thanks to our Heavenly Father, we had already

Now He was offering us a path to complete or perfect that being.

is essential to the fulness of being and glory

If while with God in the premortal spirit world,

we would agree to participate in His plan--or in other words,

keep our first estate--we would "be added upon"

with a physical body as we came to dwell on the earth that He

If then, in the course of our mortal experience,

we chose to "do all things whatsoever the Lord [our]

would demonstrate to God and to ourselves our commitment

while outside His presence and in a physical body with all

Could we bridle the flesh so that it became the instrument

Could we be trusted in time and eternity with godly powers,

Those who did would "have glory added upon their heads for ever

and ever"--a very significant aspect of that glory being

a resurrected, immortal, and glorified physical body.

No wonder we "shouted for joy" at these magnificent

At least four things are needed for the success

of this divine plan: First was the creation of the earth

Whatever the details of the creation process,

but that it was directed by God the Father

and implemented by Jesus Christ: "All things were made by him;

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