RICHARD -
I have a question about who a child gets sealed to
in the eternities if both parents do not make it due
to there unworthiness.
Would the child be sealed to the next set of worthy
parents in his or hers geneology pedigree line
i.e.(Grandparents or ggreat grandparents)or which
worthy Gparents comes first? This concept seems
logical.
However because of our free agency, can this
particular child choose a set of parents on another
Geneology line.
I did read the statement by Joseph Feilding
Smith:Here is what Joseph Fielding Smith said in The
Doctrines of Salvation:
"Outside the Celestial kingdom there is no family
unit. That organization is reserved for those
willing to abide in every covenant and every
obligation which we are called upon to receive while
we sojurn here in this mortal life(p. 67)
...children left without one and maybe without both
parents, to be taken perhaps through the mercy of
the Almighty into some other faithful family, to be
adopted in such a family to be theirs through all
eternity...(p. 83)
Would this mean any set of parents outside our
pedigree line?
I am also reminded of this welding link as stated in
D&C 128:18
Is there any material from the leaders of the
Church?
JOEL - Notice that President Smith said "perhaps" the child
will be taken into another family. I don't think we
really know much about this for sure beyond
speculation. His opinion on this may be accurate, but
it would not really matter which other family, if any,
the child would be adopted in to. Here is why. There
is a divine patriarchal order under Christ that is
established in the Celestial Kingdom to which all
children will belong to who have undergone the sealing
ordinance or were born under the covenant. Because of
this order, it doesn't really matter so much if
someone's parents don't make it there or not; we are
all sealed into God's one big family in the Cesletial
Kingdom.
Joseph F. Smith said:
"The living cannot be made perfect without the dead,
nor the dead be made perfect without the living, There
has got to be a welding together and a joining
together of parents and children and children and
parents until the whole chain of God's family shall be
welded together into one chain, and they shall all
become the family of God and His Christ."
(Joseph F. Smith, Millennial Star 68:628-629, August
26, 1906)
Therefore, while all children hope that they will be
with their parents in the Celestial Kingdom, as long
as they are sealed into the family of God and remain
faithful, they will enjoy all the blessings that come
from being sealed. What is perhaps most important is
the sealing to our spouse, for ultimately that is the
only way we can obtain the full measure of exaltation.