And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female (Matthew 19:4)
Elder Ballard offers 'blunt' but 'loving' counsel to young adults
In his recent talk, discussed in the article above, Ballard dealt with the issue of "gender," a hot-button topic due to the utter insanity that is transgenderism (which is, like bipolar, a psychiatric condition):
Elder Ballard gets blunt about "gender issues."
Elder Ballard said he also sometimes hears criticism from youth that the Church takes too hard of a stance on marriage or gender issues. “Before you start questioning that, you go back and study the plan of salvation,” Elder Ballard told the young adults.
“What is God’s great plan of happiness? Why are we here? Where do we come from? Who are we? Who are you?” he asked. “Well, you are sons and daughters of God. You are spirit offspring of our Heavenly Parents. You lived in the pre-mortal world as sons and daughters of God.”
He then encouraged listeners to go back to the book of Genesis in the Bible. “Find out why God created this world. Who are we … and what are we charged to do and how are we charged to do it? Well, Adam and Eve were given firm direction. They were moved out of the garden and told to multiply and replenish the earth. And there’s one way you should do that: in God’s way of marriage.”
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