A page of blather, followed by a page of url’s is useless and a waste of electrons.
Stop wasting our time please.
Thank you. Go to your temple or something.
BTW why don’t Mormon temples have a cross on the steeples?...
(that’s not a punchline, I want to know)
Stop shilling for Romney.
Woah, friendly fire. I’m defending Newt here—you must be responding to the wrong person.
BTW why don’t Mormon temples have a cross on the steeples?...
(that’s not a punchline, I want to know)
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Mormons NEVER use the cross as a symbol either in their chapels which have a spire only or for jewelry, in their pictures in their homes, or on their temples (which have a gold statue of the Angel Moroni). Mormons truly shun the Cross.
The first answer they will give you is that the cross represents the death of Christ and they focus on the resurrection of Christ. Sometimes you will get a snarky reply like “If Jesus was shot would you wear a gun around your neck?!?”
The other answer is related to their theology. According to the LDS Jesus shed his blood by sweating drops of blood in the Garden to pay for sin, thus the sin bearing mostly took place in the garden not on the Cross and that the Cross was really only a method of execution and technically Jesus COULD have died of old age because he had already born the sins in the garden. The point of Christ’s death, in Mormonism is because he HAD to die SIMPLY to be resurrected IN ORDER that we could all be resurrected.
Here is are 2 links to some more information and I am always happy to answer either in forum or via freepmail.
http://www.utlm.org/faqs/faqgeneral.htm#11
http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/gethsemaneandchristsbloodinldsreferences.htm