If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God's great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!
If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.
Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
There is no substitute for marrying in the temple.