According to Mormons, why did God make Eve's childbearing painful?
score:3
While there may not be a direct answer, that is specifically answered in LDS (Mormons) doctrine, there are a few that together may provide an answer. The LDS have a strong belief in opposites.
For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.
The LDS also believe in having children and that they are a blessing. Elder Neil L. Anderson said:
It is a crowning privilege of a husband and wife who are able to bear children to provide mortal bodies for these spirit children of God. We believe in families, and we believe in children.1
The LDS understand that pain is part of being mortal2.
But like everything pain has it's opposite: joy, happiness, etc (which come later). (in my words)
On intense pain Elder Robert D. Hales said:
In the past two years, I have waited upon the Lord for mortal lessons to be taught me through periods of physical pain, mental anguish, and pondering. I learned that constant, intense pain is a great consecrating purifier that humbles us and draws us closer to God’s Spirit.3
See also:
The Family - A Proclamation to the World
1 https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/children?lang=eng
2 https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2005/10/the-sanctity-of-the-body?lang=eng
3 https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1998/10/healing-soul-and-body?lang=eng
Emphasis added by me
More post
- 📝 How can we understand the SDA interpretation of Daniel 9:26?
- 📝 Did Jesus transform into spirit form after Resurrection
- 📝 Is God Grateful?
- 📝 Is God just and/or merciful?
- 📝 Can humans fall in love with each other in heaven?
- 📝 Which Church Fathers say the New Adam married the New Eve at the wedding of Cana?
- 📝 How to determine a genuine call from God?
- 📝 A more literal Bible translation than WEB
- 📝 Atheist Arguments
- 📝 What is the origin of the Mormon Temple Ceremony and how has it changed throughout the years?
- 📝 What reasons does the Bible give for why the tribe of Levi was chosen to have the priesthood and temple duties?
- 📝 How do non-soul sleep adherents interpret 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18?
- 📝 What significance do the church fathers attribute to Simon of Cyrene carrying the cross of Christ?
- 📝 Has Protestant-led public bible study ever been viewed by Roman Catholics as violation of the Magisterium?
- 📝 Is having a moment of silence for someone anti-Christian?
- 📝 What is an overview of how contemporary Christians discern that God is giving them instructions to follow a very specific course of action?
- 📝 What is a Christian's justification for a legal prohibition of h*m*sexual marriage?
- 📝 Why did Jesus tell his disciples to buy swords?
- 📝 How do we know the Sacrament of Communion as practiced in the Catholic Church was instituted at the Last Supper?
- 📝 What is the difference between Consubstantiation and Impanation?
- 📝 Through what procedure is canon law amended?
- 📝 Why do some Christians believe it is moral to be a h*m*sexual?
- 📝 What happened to the Book of the Law in the time of Josiah?
- 📝 In light of Mark 10, how can Christians in good conscience purchase luxury items?
- 📝 Why doesn't the Father have additional attributes like the Son and Holy Spirit?
- 📝 How was 'years' defined in the book of Genesis?
- 📝 Do most Christian scientists have a Literal Creationist viewpoint?
- 📝 How can a Christian effectively explain the seeming contradiction between Gen 1:31 and Gen 6:6?
- 📝 According to those holding that Lazarus was literally raised from the dead, why did Matthew, Mark, and Luke not mention it?
- 📝 Can these three "2nd greatest commandments" be put into one sentence?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 According to Mormons, why did God make Eve's childbearing painful?
- 📝 According to Protestantism, why did God make exoplanets?
- 📝 Why did God make garments of skin for Adam and Eve when they had already made clothing for themselves?
- 📝 Why did God make it a sin to eat an apple?
- 📝 Why did God make the "Forbidden Fruit" available in Eden?
- 📝 According to non-Trinitarians, why did God allow trinitarianism to become the mainstream understanding of His nature?
- 📝 According to orthodox Trinitarians, why did Jesus respond that only God is good?
- 📝 Why did God tell Moses to make a bronze serpent on a stick?
- 📝 According to Protestantism why did God choose the persona of a Father?
- 📝 According to Calvinists, why did God say what He did to Cain in Genesis 4:7?
- 📝 According to Protestantism, why God did not inspire New Testament writers to explicitly assert Sola Scriptura?
- 📝 According to Protestant Old Testament Scholars, why did God charge Adam & Eve to multiply during creation week if they didn’t until after the fall?
- 📝 According to Catholicism, why did God create men as men rather than as angels?
- 📝 According to Catholicism, why did God lower Himself so much for the specks of dust like us?
- 📝 According to the RCC, why did God create so many planets?
- 📝 According to Roman Catholic doctrine, why does Mary refer to God as her Savior if she was born without sin?
- 📝 According to those holding that Lazarus was literally raised from the dead, why did Matthew, Mark, and Luke not mention it?
- 📝 Why did God wrestle with Jacob?
- 📝 Why did God kill a man for picking up sticks on the Sabbath?
- 📝 According to those holding that Jesus was literally born of a virgin, why did Paul not mention it?
- 📝 Why did God accept Abel's offering and not Cain's?
- 📝 Why did Mormons stop practicing polygamy?
- 📝 Why did Jesus question God on the cross?
- 📝 Why did God become angry with Balaam?
- 📝 Why did God choose Mary?
- 📝 According to Calvinism, why does God give mercy to some and not to others?
- 📝 Why did God create such complexity in man?
- 📝 Did God kill the first borns in Exodus, according to Jehovah's Witnesses?
- 📝 Why did God change Jacob's name to Israel?
- 📝 Why did Jesus change Peter's name, according to non-Catholic theology?