[Elsie]

That seems to be your implication and it is not the That seems to be your implication and it is not the implication of the scripture.of the scripture.

So??

NONE of the things done in MORMONism's Temple Rites® are found in Scripture.

What are the 'implications' of THAT??

[MarkBsnr]

***NONE of the things done in MORMONism’s Temple Rites® are found in Scripture.***

To my eternal shame, I was made a 32nd degree Mason in the Scottish Rite. I have read through the LDS Temple rites published on the web and found that they agree 9 points out of 10 with the Masonic rites.

Joseph Smith was a fraud and a con man. Sidney Rigdon and Oliver Cowdery, who wrote most of the BOM, could definitely attest to that.