We know that through the restoration of the church and gospel of Jesus Christ, that God the Father has an eternal wife who is the mother of our spirits. We know that we are literally the offspring of God (Father and Mother) and that we are their spirit children. Jesus Christ is the Firstborn of all the spirit children of God. It is the duty of God the Father and Jesus Christ to officiate over this mortal world. It was the plan from the beginning that the spirit children of God come to a mortal world and experience good an evil and receive a physical body. God the Father and Mother already have immortal bodies. Jesus was chosen to come to earth and take on a mortal body and suffer death for the salvation of his spirit brothers and sisters. After his suffering, he would resurrect to also have an immortal body of flesh and bones. Thanks to Jesus Christ, after we all die, we all will resurrect to have immortal bodies of flesh and bones. We believe that as part of the priesthood of God that whatsoever we bind on earth can be bound in heaven (Matt. 16:19). Through the priesthood of God, we are able to bind our marriages on earth to also be bound in heaven. Thus we believe in eternal marriage. We believe that we too, after this mortal life, might also have spirit children in heaven just as our Father an Mother in heaven do. This privilege is only given to those who inherit the kingdom of heaven. We believe these verses have this meaning of eternal marriage:
Genesis 2:24
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 11:11
11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
The power to bind on earth and have it bound in heaven allows us to create eternal families and to seal relationships not only for time but for all eternity.