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#2: Yet the author still asks: Is the endowment ceremony a “dead, zombie ritual”...
#3: From the blog:
Also, Mormon Expression did an episode on The Top Ten Changes to the Temple:
Removal of penalties
Oath of Vengeance removed
Lecture at the veil and Adam-God theory used to be taught
You used to be naked under the shield during Washings & Anointings
The preacher was removed who used to lead participants in a Protestant hymn
Five points of fellowship abandoned
Changes to the garments
Washings & Anointings used to be with whiskey and perfume
Endowment now is a film rather than live performance (except the Salt Lake and Manti temples)
Change of female pledge of obedience such that women pledge allegiance to their husband as the harken unto the Lord
For a rendering of other temple changes written by a Mormon, see:
Consider the multiplication of "endowments for the dead" performed in Mormon temples:
A. "Through 1985, a cumulative total of...almost 86 million endowments for the dead have been performed."
B. 25 years ago today - 1988 Oct.1 [Lds complete 100 million endowments for the dead in temples]
C. "A 1996 estimate by Richard Cowan states that around 150 million endowments have been performed, most of which were in behalf of deceased persons." (Endowment (Mormonism))
D. Projecting the above #...if Lds merely maintained its early 1990 growth figures, it has now performed 300 million endowments for the dead. More likely, due to the the fact that the Mormon Church went from 49 temples in 1996 to now 143 completed temples (almost quadrupled) -- with a staggering 48 completed in 1999 and 2000 alone -- and technological (digital) increasing genealogical information, it wouldn't surprise me to discover that Mormonism is on the cusp of its billionth endowment for the dead!
These numbers are mind-boggling considering:
The Mormon Church...
...didn't even build temples for necro purposes until after 1840...
...and didn't have an "endowment house" until 1855...
...didn't really start endowments for the dead on any kind of broader scale til the late 1870s...
...and didn't have a temple outside of Utah until late 1919...
First temple built Kirtland Ohio, 1836; Second temple built Nauvoo, Illinois c 1845. Even as the Nauvoo temple was under construction, portions of it were used for sacred rites, such as baptisms for the dead in the basement font. During the winter of 1845-46, the temple began to be used for additional ordinances, including the Nauvoo-era rituals of Endowment and Sealings in Marriage and Adoptions.
I really wish FR weren’t used as a major conduit to demonize The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
he vitriol is beneath what FR is about. It’s never an adult conversation or honest inquiry.
That said, parse this.
KJV
1 Corinthians 15:29
Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
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| DATE | Occultic Communication Encouraged | SOURCE |
| Open House start date April 3, 1993 San Diego, CA Temple | Visitations by the dead: Prior to the dedication of the San Diego temple, local Mormon families were given a packet entitled Family Temple Preparation Material. Included in this written material were about seven pages devoted to "true stories" of temple patrons who were visited by the dead | They See Dead People? |
| Aug. 12, 1949 -- republished by Mormon church in its Deseret Book Co. publishing, 1972 | "I haven't actually seen any of them, but sometimes when I have finished an endowment or a sealing session in the Salt Lake Temple my bosom has burned, and I have known keep within me that those persons for whom I have officiated have accepted that work." | Bountiful Second Ward Chapel, "Disembodied Spirit Life" section of Life Eternal: A Series of Four Lectures Lynn A. McKinlay, Deseret Book Co. 1972, p. 206 |
| 1980 | Lds "apostle" Boyd K. Packer: "On many occasions I have been present -- when sealings were to be performed, when temple ordinance work was being done, when funeral sermons were being preached --in circumstances when the veil was very thin. The gratitude of those who have gone beyond found its way through the misty barrier and was communicated as spiritual things are communicated." | The Holy Temple, Bookcraft, 1980, p. 267 |
| 2009 | Even Mormon Sunday School material highlights spirit paranormal manifestations | Lds.org Sunday School Chapter Detail: Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Gospel Doctrine Teacher's Manual: See p. 2 |
| Fall 2006 (and assumed other years' courses as well) | BYU freshman course offering | Religious Education class at BYU -- C261: Intro to Lds Family History (Genealogy): See 'Manifestations of the Spirits' section, pp. 57-58 |
| 1996 | An official Mormon church publication -- even placed wholly as a digital publication for years -- highlighted such occultic communication allegedly occurring in 1884 and 1893 ... see chart below | Our Heritage: A Brief History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1996 pp. 99, 102 |
| 1983 | An official Mormon church priesthood manual was encouraging such paranormal communication in citing an 1884 manifestation | Sermons and Missionary Services of Melvin Joseph Ballard, Deseret Book Co. p. 249, as cited in Come Follow Me, Melchizedek Priesthood Personal Study Guide, p. 162, 1983 |
Reject this dangerous Mormon cult, and join the Church of Cartoon Kristianity.
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