Jesus taught people to abandon their families, just as he himself did. Paul was explicitly anti-marriage in his letters. The original Christians were anti-marriage, anti-family. By definition, being pro-family makes you a heretic.
Avoision. Look at the text, not the changes you made to it.
The text says that the dead don't marry. Jesus was anti-family. Those facts are irreconcilable with eternal marriage.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
I believe the main reason, and the simple logical reason that LDS scholarship ignores in depth biblical study and "commentary", is that the LDS church, and it's survival as an institution, demands that the Bible is only true " as far as it has been translated correctly". When you have a LDS scholar, like a Peterson, who might actually have the ability to translate the text coherently from the original language, then they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. LDS biblical scholarship is restricted to the all ready established translations and interpretations of past GA, mainly Joseph Smith and BY.
If an LDS scholar, who could read the original language, was to sit with a group of biblical scholars with the same ability...and actually translate the text, I doubt they could be intellectually honest , while holding the line to LDS thought.
The out for the LDS scholar on this would be Joseph Smith meant, or his scribe screwed up when he wrote "translated correctly"; and what he really meant was "transcended", in that we don't have any reliable MSS to get a reliable translation.
Don't take life so seriously in that " sooner or later we are just old men in funny clothes" "Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk"