Mormon Temples - Why do Mormons build temples?

[omiolo]

A pair of recent press e-clippings highlighting Mormon-related coverage touch on two hot buttons -- BYU's Sweet 16 run in the NCAA men's basketball tournament and the LDS Church's involvement in the Utah Compact and its role in immigration reform.

With BYU to play the University of Florida in tournament action Thursday, Florida's student newspaper -- the Independent Alligator -- called on UF fans in an editorial to leave religion and beliefs out of cheers and jeers come game time.

[omiolo]

It seems they believed that The Book of Mormon took place over all of the Western continent so any and all Indian cultures in North and South America (the Hemispheric geography theory), were Book of Mormon peoples. I believe this because the statements made in Joseph Smiths lifetime are consistently all over the Western Hemisphere, and not secluded to one area over the other.

[omiolo]

. [they include]intensely personal decisions such as who to marry and when to have children if married," he said. "Opinions about proper and improper majors or career choices for women and men, and other intrusive verbal or behavioral assaults should never be heard or seen in the BYU community. Happily, they are rare, but when they do happen they are extremely hurtful."

[omiolo]

"We love the support that we get from the different LDS avenues, like from Salem," he said.

Money collected from the resale of the donated items goes toward vocational training of LDS members and to humanitarian efforts locally and worldwide, he said.

[omiolo]

At the time, Elder William R. Walker of the Quorums of the Seventy and executive director of the LDS Church's Temple Department, said the temple will be redone to make it look brand-new.

"This temple will be magnificent and beautiful in every way when it's redone," he said.

[omiolo]

Jeffrey Byers, principal architect at Richardson, said he predicts the Ogden Temple will become more of a destination temple than it has been.

The LDS Church announced plans for the temple's renovation in February.

[neil73]

The temple is there as a focal point for mormons tithing. If you don't pay, you don't get in. If you don't get in, you don't get to the celestial kingdom.

In essence, you have to buy your way into heaven in mormonism.

[omiolo]

@neil73 Obviously you did NOT pay attention in sunday school. But that is how you get to where you are isn't it???

[neil73]

@omiolo I am right though. You cannot deny what I said in my previous post is incorrect. Or has Mormon doctrine been rewritten yet again?

[omiolo]

@neil73 NOPE, not right. But hey, you are probably use to that!

[neil73]

@omiolo Ok. Let's say I join the church, but do NOT, at any time attend the temple, or pay tithing.

What would be my 'final destination'? Celestial, terrestrial or (the invented word) 'telestial' kingdom? Hmmm?

[omiolo]

@neil73 I know of millions of Mormon Christians who do NOT pay tithing and are considered Temple worthy.

Secondly, entrance into the Celestial Kingdom requires commandments necessary for salvation. Temple attendance is NOT required for salvation.

Like I said, you should have paid attention in Sunday School.

[omiolo]

Reflecting back, Amy said she knew one team member would have to sit out the finals. She said her prayers about it were answered. She had been voted team leader by her teammates and felt inspired that she should lead from the sidelines. She said she is able to make such decisions because she has confidence that Heavenly Father is directing her path through life.

[DefendingMormonism]

How grateful I am for so many temples accessible to Mormons all around the world.

[omiolo]

Third, dare to have the big talks with your sons. You know what I mean: talks about drugs and drinking, about the dangers of todays media—the Internet, cyber technologies, and pornography—and about priesthood worthiness, respect for girls, and moral cleanliness. While these should not be the only subjects you talk about with your sons, please dont shy away from them

[omiolo]

If you have visited the Ikeja General Hospital lately, you would have noticed a blocked drainage that could only have been a breeding place for mosquitoes. This is besides some discarded items at the back of Ayinke ward that left the hospital looking unkempt.

[omiolo]

When Mormon hands helped to keep Lagos clean

[omiolo]

Josh Morel, a youth who helped organize the youths who attended the cleanup, said, "My favorite part of the conference was the beach cleanup. I got to walk along the beach, and it was great exercise as well. The Surfrider Foundation people were well organized for us. They had bags and water for us ... I loved the beach cleanup."

[omiolo]

The weekend began on a Friday afternoon at Huntington Beach State Park with games, a boogie boarding contest, bonfires and dinner on the beach.

On Saturday at 9 a.m., the youths gathered at Huntington City Beach where they met up with Surfrider Foundation representatives, who are the organizers of the beach cleanup.

[omiolo]

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency, Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, Elder William R. Walker of the Seventy and Alan S. Layton, temple president, participated in the cornerstone ceremony as well as the dedication. President Boyd K. Packer, president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, also participated in the temple dedication.

[omiolo]

President Monson (center), President Uchtdorf (right) and Elder Walker prior to the Oquirrh Mountain Utah cornerstone

[omiolo]

August 2009 President Thomas S. Monson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dedicated the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple today. Prior to the first dedicatory session, President Monson joined hundreds outside the temple for the traditional cornerstone ceremony.

[omiolo]

When being relocated on Temple Square in 2006, the Aaronic Priesthood statue unveiled its own secret from inside its base — a copper box containing a 798-page list of the Aaronic Priesthood holders and other church members who contributed to the monument built in 1958, press clippings and four binders of priesthood materials.

[omiolo]

Time capsules certainly aren't unique to the LDS Church, nor are the LDS capsules exclusive to temples — they can be found from the region's oldest meetinghouses and tabernacles to the recently completed Church History Library. Or inside a monument.

[Jayn0o]

'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.'

Churches, tabernacles, Priests are they not images of power between the creator and the subject ?

[omiolo]

you NEVER answered my previous question.

why is that?

[Jayn0o]

holy acts: sacrifices and the like. are you serious? polygamy and sacrifices ... sounds like satanism ...

[omiolo]

"polygamy and sacrifices ... sounds like satanism"

Abraham was a satanist?

are you a pharisee?

[Jayn0o]

Hum no i'm a free thinking human with no intermediates with me and the Creator. I know it's very rare these days...

[omiolo]

**with no intermediates with me and the Creator**

I am NOT even sure what that mean!

[Jayn0o]

What that means is :

Between Me and the Creator I do not want: institutions, symbols, books, people, religions etc... These are intermediates that appropriate themselves POWER by placing themselves BETWEEN me and the Creator.

[omiolo]

some times the wicked are left in that situation.

[Jayn0o]

I believe the wicked are : institutions, symbols, books, priests, religions... They say they "represent" the Creator thus putting themselves in positions of power, between the Creator and his subjects just like YOUR Church is doing. Not only that your institution seeks money, just like a corporation. Now this is wicked.

[omiolo]

you OBVIOUSLY do NOT understand Christianity.

Maybe you should read 1 Cornithians 14,

and pretend the word Church does NOT exist??

[omiolo]

@Jayn0o

the pharisees called the things of God wicked too. You join some bad company!

[lilastroidgirl]

@Jayn0o

I believe the wicked are those that break God's commandments. Some may fall into those categories. How you can confuse an organization whose sole purpose is to bring families and individuals closer to God, with such wicked accusations is bewildering. The Lord seeks us to offer tithing as a demonstration of Faith (Malachi 3:8-10). With those tithes the Church blesses families. No paid ministry. Come to our Church to find out!

[MormonUnApologist]

@lilastroidgirl So where in the Bible is it a commandment to be a Mormon "eternal family?" While I'm at it where does it say in the Bible that tithing is 10% of your (preferably gross) income? Is it faith or just being obedient to what church leaders tell you?

[neil73]

@lilastroidgirl The Malachi verses have been used by many charlatans, mainly televangelists and the like; but it is theologically wrong to think the verses refer to giving money to the church, or churches etc.

Ask any credible christian theologican

[rtiffanytaylor]

Check out the new Temple recently

dedicated to our Lord.

All are the House of the Lord, holy of holiness of places.

[cezza57]

i dont need a temple..my body is a living temple for the lord

[marcopolo8765]

Cool. Can you get married to your wife for time and all eturnity inside your temple. I can in mine.LOL

[phantomregiment1989]

For time and eternity, huh? Hey, is Marie Osmond still married for time and eternity?

[marcopolo8765]

yes, in fact she is if she and her husband were married in the temple. The only way you can become unsealed once sealed inside the house of God is to go back into the Lords house and undo what you have done. I think it would very difficult to stand before God and ask him to unseal yourself from your family. I have heard that it does happen. But I have never experienced it for myself. I can't see the reasoning in it.

[ixiiioviii]

They build temples to hide their perverted illegal actions. they have much to hide.

[elguarito7]

such as...., come on and tell me, come on

[omiolo]

Five new Temples were announced yesterday.

The Italian Saints seem the MOST joyful. But Saints all around the world rejoice in the building up of Zion here on this earth!

[praetorkambu]

Sweet! Pretty amazing considering that country hosts the seat of the Roman Catholic faith, Vatican City.

[goodmusicvideosonly]

Precious lesson about the meaning of God's Temples. Most of the world lack this fundamental knowledge of the difference between chapel and Temple, and the specific purpose of each one in helping us to grow spiritually and reach our divine potential as children of Heavenly Parents. Thanks!!!

[johnyjamie]

Don't you wonder why the cross is nowhere to be found on Mormon temples and LDS Church buildings? The cross is where our victory over death took place, and yet the LDS Church won't have anything to do with it. The apostle Paul tells us that, "the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God" (1 Cor. 1:18) Satan opposes the cross.

[tmill1234]

Johnyjamie It is not a matter of the opposing the cross, we Latter Day Saints full acknowledge the victory over the bands of death, look at it this way. If Christ was put to death by stoning (which was the jewish form of execution) would you put a big rock on the top of your Church building or on a necklace? or If our Lord was Executed with a knife would you glorify the knife? No I dont believe you would...I hope I have helped your understanding as was my goal.

[johnyjamie]

My understanding is, like all Mormons, you are lost and in need of the truth of the Bible (not to twist, omit, add to, or contradict God's word)!

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Gal 1:6-8

[carlasue88]

the theology of the cross goes back the the new testament and the early church. you can read in the Gospels that you must take up your cross and follow Jesus. from the beginning christians have used as their symbol and sign the cross of Christ. St. Peter refused to be crucified in the same way as Christ, asking to be hung upside-down. this is just one example of the total reverence the cross has had in Christian history.

[danjricks]

I used to live in South America, in Chile, and the only church that used the Cross was the Catholic Church. The Christian evangelical churches down there were opposed to using it to adorn their buildings as well.

[johnyjamie]

Whether the Christian building have crosses on them or not, they understand what the cross was all about. This is something LDS don't get. If they did, they wouldn't be working for their place in heaven. Jesus did all the finished work on the cross. Now those who accept his free gift will have eternal life with him. The temple veil was torn from top to bottom when Jesus died giving free access to the thrown of grace. Joseph Smith sewed the veil back up!

[osmiolos]

"The Jerusalem Temple was a place where you went to carry out Holy Acts"

Yes, we have restored that meaning to the Temple!