[TruthTalk] marriage/sex/child abuse/priests

[Blaine Borrowman]

Blaine:  I have included some quotes on sex and marriage below--seems to me there is somerthing going on with  all those priests abusing kids--they deny it is because the priests are unmarried--celebate--but is this the truth?   In Genesis 2:18 we read, �And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone.� Why? Is there something eternally important about a man and woman being together in marriage? In Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 it says that two are better than one because they have �reward [blessings, an inheritance] for their labour.� And if one spouse stumbles or falls, the other will lift him up. In verse 11 it says that two, together, create warmth. And if one spouse should be prevailed upon, then husband and wife shall withstand him. Think of all the learning, growth and blessings that come from the combining of two lives in marriage.   After declaring that man shouldn�t be alone, God took one of Adam�s ribs (�bone of his bones, flesh of his flesh�) and made a woman (see Gen. 2:21-23). In Genesis 2:24, we are told that man and woman are to leave their parents and cleave (or join) unto each other and become ONE��one flesh.� This same phrase is repeated six other times in the scriptures (see also Matt.19:5-6, Mark 10:8, Eph. 5:31, D&C 49:16, Moses 3:24, and Abr. 5:18.) These seven scriptures in which we are commanded to leave our parents and become �one flesh� are confirmation of the importance of the marital unit.