Celestial marriage

[citation needed] The ordinance is associated with a covenant that takes place inside temples by those authorized to hold the sealing power.

[citation needed] Obtaining a temple recommend requires one to abide by LDS Church doctrine and be interviewed and considered worthy by their bishop and stake president.

In the marriage ceremony, a man and a woman make covenants to God and to each other and are said to be sealed as husband and wife for time and all eternity.

[5] The term "celestial marriage" is still used in the polygamous sense by Mormon fundamentalists denominations which branched from the LDS Church.

[citation needed] In the LDS Church today, both men and women may enter a celestial marriage with only one living partner at a time.

[citation needed] Many Mormons believe that all these marriages will be valid in the eternities and the husband will live together in the celestial kingdom as a family with all to whom he was sealed.

[citation needed] LDS Church members believe that through this sealing, the family, constituted of a man, wife, and children will live together forever, if obedient to God's commandments.

[citation needed] There is substantial doctrinal dispute between the LDS Church and its offshoots as to whether celestial marriage is plural or monogamous.

[citation needed] The Christian theologian Emanuel Swedenborg taught in his 1750s book Heaven and Hell that marriage will exist after death,[14] but not procreation.