The Book of Mormon teaches that a remnant of.Bella describes her relationship with Edward as “forever.”

A unique LDS teaching is that marriages are “sealed” for eternity spouses are referred to as eternal companions.…Bella describes her vampire boyfriend, Edward, as an angel whom she cannot imagine “any more glorious.” Edward’s skin sparkles in the sunlight, and he visits Bella’s bedroom at night. Mormons believe angels are resurrected beings of flesh and bone.Meyer describes the Cullens, particularly Edward, as “godlike” and “inhumanly beautiful.” In the “Twilight” series, the Cullen family of vampires once was human but now lives without death in a resurrected condition. “A crucial Mormon belief is that humans can become divine.Although the first few points (like the fact that Bella doesn’t drink alcohol, remains a virgin until marriage, and doesn’t want to abort her unborn half-breed) are superficial, some of the others get to the theological heart of Twilight‘s Mormon roots. The Religion News Service ran a pretty good article about the Mormonism- Twilight connection last week. What’s buried deep inside any good novelist is going to “out” whether the writer intends it to or not. But so much else about the series is decidedly Mormon that to claim that people “make up” Mormon references is just silly. OK, Robert Pattinson, here’s a reality check: Yes, the Twilight books were conceived in a dream that Stephenie Meyer had about a vampire named Edward (that’s you!) and an ordinary girl talking in a meadow. Apparently Pattinson is worried that if the Twilight series is dismissed as being infused with Mormonism, the Eclipse movie will only take in $295 million in domestic box office instead of the $296 million that New Moon sucked out of fans.

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