religion - LDS - Mormons?

Everyone is whole heatedly invited to attend church.

The temple is a different story. Perhaps I can explain.

God has always built temples for the purpose of administering ordinances that are not open to everyone.

If you read carefully the 4 gospels and the book of Acts, you will find that the gospel and church that Jesus set up required the sacrifice of all earthly things. It was actually a higher law than the law of Moses. The law of Moses required physical type sacrifices as a way to help the faithless Israelites to come unto God. Christ initiated a gospel that requires the whole heart. There is no other way to obtain the faith necessary for miracles and salvation.

When people join the LDS church, they are baptized as a symbol of the covenant they make with God to live the preparatory gospel of repentance and baptism. It is the same gospel that was administered by John the baptist in preparation for the coming of Christ. Those who can keep this covenant then make higher covenants in the temple. These covenants require much more and are designed to bring a person into the presence of God.

Moses tried to bring the children of Israel into the presence of God who was in a cloud but they were too fearful. So God temprarily instituted the law of Moses to prepare them for a better day.

If a person is not prepared, the temple ordinances will look foolish. Thus did Jesus say to not cast your perls before swine because they would trample them under their feet, then turn again and rend you. Kind of like what they do on this web site.

They demand your 10%, then refuse to tell divulge finances.

They refuse to tell even their members what they have invested in, what businesses they own.

They refuse to divulge accurate membership and attendance numbers.

You can't talk about Heavenly Mother.

The local congregation leaders have a book called the Church Handbook of Intructions that most members don't know about. It is 200-300 pages of rules for member behavior, and you only learn about most of them if you break one and get called in for a scolding.

The top paid LDS leaders don't divulge their income or the positions they hold in church owned businesses.

The First Presidency has a large vault full of historical documents and artifacts. No one else has any idea what is in there.

Members are pressured to have LDS temple weddings that are not to be witnessed by outsiders, children or even 'unworthy' members.

When marrying, they make secret covenants to the church and may never speak of them. They are given secret names that can't be divulged. No one is to speak of any of it, even among themselves, outside the temple.

The church has a 'Strengthening the Members' committee they have recently fessed up about, so maybe that doesn't count as secret any more. They keep track of apostates and inactives and report back on their activities.

Baptism for the dead is now secret. The ordinances used to be visible, but they had too many embarrassing episodes, like baptizing Princess Di and Ann Frank.

Joseph Smith had almost 30 wives when he died. He lied about it in public speeches in church records. No one knew but his inner circle, about 1000 polygamous members in Nauvoo. Polygamy wasn't announced until the general membership had marched to Utah, a great hardship. They had no idea they were told to do that so that Brigham Young could have all his wives. They died for polygamy on the trail and didn't even know it.

And Mormons will tell you they have no secrets. Tell me one other ordinance in any church that is necessary for salvation and isn't spoken of.

there are at least 3 traditions of a sacredness verses secrecy

one traditions says eldes should not throw pearls before swine, interpretation of pearls is bible doctrine or scriptural doctrines in teh church.

by definition everything in the temple is sacred and therefore we are led to not talk about what goes on inside. even though many people have. once i spoke too much in public, and i felt like i was shunned immediately.

there are sins and secret combinations in the church, they never stopped. i heard one person say, there are sinners and saints, and there are those that are aints.

the bible warns us of wolves in sheeps clothing. one such person made a nation wide public announcement, so i recorded the audio files and saved them on sky drive. its worth listening too.

the 19th century was a different planet altogether. people believed in things that the church has outgrown.

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=fff19b48ee821aa4&sc...

i love the LDS people even more than my own disfunctional family of atheists.

We do not, we have things such as temple covenants that are sacred. If you tell me what you think we do in secret, I will respond.

You are right. The temple is for sinners. Everyone should be allowed inside the temple there should be at least 100,000 people inside the temple at one time to see what the temple is all about and see what is really going on. If it is sacred, then let people repent inside it.

well, if you were trying to brainwash people, I bet you'd also be trying to keep it on the down-low

Joe Smith - LSD - Moron!