LOL - thats rich coming from you resty
The Temple is the House of the Lord and only those LDS who keep their covenants are allowed to enter.
um dear - didnt the curtain on the temple rip from the top down to signify that the temple no longer held the spirit and He dwells in our heart ?
Luke 23:44 It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour, 45 for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. 46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he had said this, he breathed his last.
Romans 5:4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. 6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
That said - why does a Mormon temple only allow "Godly" people within, by permission only ?
Why are the temple grounds in palmyra ( a very small 1 stoplight town) fenced ?........Did Christ endeavor to keep the neighbors out ?
The whole temple connection for Mormonism is specious, to be gentle to their victim sensors. According tot he novel, book of mormon, no Levites were with the Jews who migrated to the Americas. Without Levites, it was impossible to keep the Temple ordinances as God gave them to the Jews in Sinai for the supposed millions and millions of Jews who supposedly live and died here on this continent. Regardless of the blatant contradictions to the Bible account of what happened in the Jewish Temple when Christ died on the Cross, the imaginary people in the Ameircas could not have been Temple Ordinance Jews without Levites and if there were Levites here, their Y chromosome would be still around in some Native Ameircan genes. But of course the Native Americans are genetically descended from Asians not Jews as DNA evidence has proven.
Why are the temple grounds in palmyra ( a very small 1 stoplight town) fenced ?........Did Christ endeavor to keep the neighbors out ?
The House of the Lord is a house of Order and Reverence.
Those entering the Lord House are those who been honoring the covenants they made with the Lord.
The natural man can not enter for is an enemy of God
1 Cor 2
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Mosiah 3:
19 For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father