The Christian “thing” to do is uncover blasphemies.
That people need to don this garb and learn secret handshakes in order to dwell with the Father in Heaven is every bit as blasphemous and pornographic to me as displaying this clothing is to you.
I am not “harming” you in any way. If you don’t like it, don’t look at it. In fact your brethren said this earlier on this very thread....
.....Secret? Hardly. They’ve been posted on the web for years.
Sacred? We like to think so, and we seek to keep them that way.
122 posted on 04/05/2007 9:53:08 PM MDT by Choose Ye This Day (I finally see the dawn arrivin’ I see beyond the road I’m drivin’ Far away and left behind)
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If you heard about them then they are not entirely secret are they?
To me a rite like baptism by immersion is replete with deep meaning. Similarly temple worship is also heavily infused with many teachings but they are basically the same teachings we teach in our public meetings. If you ever talk to the LDS missionaries or attend our services, what you will find is that what we talk about there is the same things we learn there. The major difference is that we believe that every temple worthy lay member must live in some respects like a priest, and similar to a priest in other faiths, the temple is the vehicle where we aspire to live up to these priest like ideals.
>> The Christian “thing” to do is uncover blasphemies.
I guess I should not be surprised; your venom only mirrors the canker in your soul that lead you from God’s church. That you could believe that Christ would want you to do this is, well amazing. What you will say to him when you meet, deeply ashamed of your actions in this life, I can only guess.
>>That people need to don this garb and learn secret handshakes in order to dwell with
>>the Father in Heaven is every bit as blasphemous and pornographic to me as
>>displaying this clothing is to you.
What an intellectually bankrupt statement, let me rephrase this for you to show you what is wrong with it.
What you do in sacred places because of your faith in God, is as offensive as to me as me making Light of things you hold sacred (just because I can), is to you. So It’s OK for me to make light of things you hold sacred in public.
Get some perspective.
>>I am not “harming” you in any way.
Actually, you are, but you are harming yourself far more.
>>If you don’t like it, don’t look at it. In fact your brethren said this earlier on this very thread....
Ah, but first you invited all to look.
>>.....Secret? Hardly. They’ve been posted on the web for years.
I never said secret, I said sacred.
>>Sacred? We like to think so, and we seek to keep them that way
As a former missionary, to a land that was not generally populated with Christians,
I learned specifically things not to do to embarrass my fellow man in his own country.
I tried very hard while there representing Jesus Christ, and ever since, to do nothing that would later embarrass me when he inquired what I had done in his name.
All Christians should have this attitude of not embarrassing our Savior, sadly you do not seem to.
I have resisted the urge to take down your web site by the various means I have at my disposal, so I have passed that test. I did not sink to your level.
I have also resisted going into your past into things that I know would embarrass you simply because you have tried to embarrass me.
I publicly and freely forgive you for the scorn and abuse that you are heaping upon me and my fellow Mormons and honestly whish that you would indeed come unto Christ that he might have part in your life.
None who speaks with the venom and anger as you do here can possibly be his follower.
Go with God CC may he teach you his ways until you release the anger and hatred that is weighing down your soul before you leave this mortal realm, this I pray, Amen.
Speaking about that which is sacred is blasphemous.
I'll quote a "True Christian" speaking of sacred temple ordinances.
Chrysostom speaking of the practice of baptism for the dead, refused to discuss the subject openly:
But first I wish to remind you who are initiated of the response, which on that evening they who introduce you to the mysteries bid you make; and then I will also explain the saying of Paul: so this likewise will be clearer to you; we after all the other things adding this which Paul now saith. And I desire indeed expressly to utter it, but I dare not on account of the uninitiated; for these add a difficulty to our exposition, compelling us either not to speak clearly or to declare unto them the ineffable mysteries. Nevertheless, as I may be able, I will speak as through a veil. John Chrysostom, Homilies on 1 Corinthians 40:2, in NPNF Series 1, 12:244.