Category: Temples and Temple Ceremony
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Masonic Symbols and the Salt Lake Temple
Many of the symbols adorning LDS temples derive from Free Masonry, which Joseph Smith was involved in and affected by.
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Revelation by Survey?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Every year the LDS faithful give a sustaining vote to their president, acknowledging his divine appointment as God’s prophet, seer and revelator. The concept of direct communication from God goes back to the very beginning of Mormonism when Joseph Smith claimed to literally converse with God and Jesus. As one…
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How the LDS Husband Hopes to Resurrect His Wife According to the LDS Temple Ceremony
By Sandra Tanner The LDS Church teaches that at the end of the world everyone will be resurrected. They also believe that almost everyone will go to heaven, which is divided up into three main levels. Bad people go to the lowest, the Telestial Kingdom (Doctrine and Covenants [D&C] 76:81-86). Good people, who were not…
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Bible Verses Relating to LDS Teachings on Temple Work
LDS temples and their ceremonies, which are said to restore ancient Jewish/Christian practices essential to eternal life, bear no resemblance to either the Old or New Testament records.
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Temples and the Bible
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner One of the most important tenets of the LDS Church is the necessity of temple ordinances. LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie explained: From the days of Adam to the present, whenever the Lord has had a people on earth, temples and temple ordinances have been a crowning feature of their…
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The Mormon Church Attempts to Conceal Temple Records for Adolf Hitler
By Helen Radkey On August 30, 1998, Don McAreavy, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, wrote to the LDS Family History Library asking if LDS proxy temple work had been performed for Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. McAreavy specifically wanted to know if temple ordinances had been performed for Hitler and Braun on September 28, 1993, in…
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Temple Marriage?
One of the most important tenants of the LDS Church is the necessity of temple ordinances, teaching that a temple marriage is required for Eternal life. Yet there is no mention of temple marriage in either the Bible or the Book of Mormon.
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Mormonism’s Early Secrets
LDS sealings are discussed (particularly, the lesser known Law of Adoption), citing the research of D. Michael Quinn.
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Mormon Claims Answered: Chapter 9
Marvin W. Cowan Temples and Temple Ordinances “We believe that through the atonement of Christ all mankind may be saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel.” 3rd Article of Faith by Joseph Smith TEMPLES Some of the “ordinances” required for LDS individual or personal salvation can only be performed in temples.…
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Mormon Leaders Fight Satanic Infiltration
Despite allegations that a satanic cult had taken root in the Mormon Church, the troubling evidence still left many unanswered questions.