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The Ideal Family and a Gospel Centered Home

Is there such a thing as an ideal family?  Yes, the family of God is the ideal family.  What was the home environment in "God's house"?  What is the purpose of our earthly families.  Why did God ordain marriage and family as a foundation for creating and nurturing life in our mortal environment?  Don't we call God our Eternal Father? Did God have a "gospel" in mind for his family before the earth was created? Yes, we know the gospel of Jesus Christ was to send Jesus to the earth to save God's children? See Ephesians 3:15) How did the fact that we are part of God's family become lost to the Christian community following the Savior's death? It is a matter of history that the nature of God became a mystery after the death of Jesus Christ. Rather than God being a Father to his Son, the existence of divine order in the heavens became known as a mystical force. Holy beings became an incorporeal essence, a non-created presence in the universe outside of