Cherry picking is taking a scripture verse out of context and trying to make it say what you want it to say. As much as possible, I do not do that. So you are falsely accusing me.
You are absolutely dillusional. Your Genesis scripture about 'the man' is the perfect example of what you just said is cherry picking. While it is true that God was talking to Adam, Adam represents all men.
If God thinks this man Adam should not be alone, do you think it is OK by God that all other men can be alone? This is what you are implying. You are implying that God meant Adam only, and that he didn't mean anything for any other man except Adam. This is an absurd interpretation, and I think you know it, and are gleefully playing me.
I interpret this saying that Adam is the example of all the men that will follow him, and if it is not good for him to be alone, it must not be good for other men to be alone. But since this is about LDS marriage and you are against it, you have decided to interpret this scripture in your favor. You certainly know that there are at least 2 interpretations of this scripture. Aren't you the one that just said, "I do not do that."
Are you going to continue in your misrepresentation of what was actually said? Jesus said what the 2 most important commandments were, not me. I'll stick with what he said.
I believe Jesus too. Are there other commandments besides the big 2?
Are they important too?
This does not support your celestial marriage assertion.
First of all, the cleaving together of a man and his wife means they are married.
Did God put a time limit a man cleaving to his wife ( or being married) to his wife)? No.
If it had said that a man should cleave unto his wife until he dies, then you could make your point.
But it doesn't, therefore I can make a point that for certain couples, this cleaving together to be one flesh could be an eternal marriage.
Only if scripture is misused to fit the lds agenda. Scripture actually supports the marriage ends at death (Romans 7:1-3, 1 Cor. 7:39). Nowhere is it found in Scripture that one has to be married to receive some higher level of salvation/exhaltation.
This is an interesting situation. But first of all both scriptures are talking about this womans time on earth. I have a temple marriage to my wife. As long as I live she cannot go out and marry another man without committing adultery.
However, if I die, she has the right to marry a man of her choice, without committing adultery. So the 2 scriptures you quoted are true. Only while she is on the earth.
Since we were married for both time (on earth)and eternity (for eternity), and in the Lord, when she dies, her marriage to the other man is void, and she will return to me and we will continue our eternal marriage for eternity.
As it says, it is not good for Adam to be alone, or Eve, or any other man, or any other woman. For the man is not without the woman, nor the woman without the man. Therefore the Lord has taken into consideration what happens when one of the partners die. These 2 scriptures are true, but only for this earth, it does not talk about eternity. Does that mean that marriage does not last for eternity, no, it just means the scriptures were addressing if one partner dies, what are the rules on this earth for the other partner.
More of your cherry picking and trying to make scripture say something it does not. While the Sermon on the Mount is full of good theology, "be perfect" is found in only one verse. And only in the first of the 3 chapters it covers. So, again, you are trying to make it apply to the whole Sermon instead of the one topic - love - where it actually is written.
OK, I do not agree with you, but OK, it says that we need to be as perfect as God is in loving Him and our neighbor.
Do you think we can be as perfect in loving God and our nieghbor as God is?
No human was, is, or ever will be perfect, save for Jesus, while they live on this earth of loving God and loving others. We are sinners. When we sin, we are not loving God perfectly, and possibly not loving others perfectly as well, depending on the sin.
First of all you are incorrect. Job was said to be perfect, and Noah was perfect, and if these 2 we know were perfect, there were many, many more not recorded in the bible.
Paul even tells us to be perfect (2nd Corinthians 13:11). Why would Paul tell us to be perfect after he told us that it is by grace, not of works that saves us???
We continue to need apostles and prophets because Paul says that they were given by Jesus for the perfecting of the saints. If Paul says Jesus says the apostles and prophets were here to perfect the saints, do you doubt anyone can be perfect?
This scripture answers your Matthew 5:48 perfect question.
1 John 2:5King James Version (KJV)
5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
It is by keeping Jesus's word, that the love of God is perfected, and it is by this means that we know that we, (or any man) is in him. (my parenthesis)
So keep Jesus's word and you will be perfect in loving God and your neighbor.
Notice it is not by hearing the word, or even believing the word, or being given faith, or by being given grace, but it is by
doing the word, or IOW doing good works. So keep up the good works.