Show us, and the world, just WHERE it is!
Otherwise, you are merely relying on 'a tradition' of the LDS organization that HAS NO BASIS IN SCRIPTURE!!!
When you do someday meet the Lord and stand before his judgment bar, it will be interesting to watch you explain why you always delighted to play devil advocate on earth!
As LDS are council not do anything like it for the prince of this world hath nothing in me!
For it is not of the Lord as the Lord said in
John 14
30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
D&C 59
6 Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Thou shalt not steal; neither commit adultery, nor kill, nor do anything like unto it.
which would include playing devil advocate.
Sorry Resty; but I'll take my chances!
KJV Acts 17:11
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
YOUR 'scriptures' have been searched, and NO authority to do the temple rites have been found.