In mormon belief, salvation/exaltation is ONLY reached by accepting and fulfilling the terms of the "contract/covenant" via special/secret/sacred "ordinances". This "contract" is available ONLY through LDS Inc.
"Participation in sacred ordinances, both live and vicarious, and fidelity or obedience to the covenants associated with those ordinances are fundamental to the gospel of Jesus Christ and to the process of coming to Him and being perfected in Him.
It is on this fundamental role of ordinances and covenants that I would like to focus. In a very broad sense, everything ordained and established by God’s authority with the intent that it be applied in the lives of His children may be referred to as His ordinances. Consequently, the commandments, statutes, decrees, and requirements of God are properly defined as the ordinances of God. Understood in a somewhat narrower sense, ordinances are also solemn acts or ceremonies that have very specific sacred and holy purposes, significance, and meaning. My reference to ordinances is in this narrower application.
>>> In mormon belief, salvation/exaltation is ONLY reached by accepting and fulfilling the terms of the “contract/covenant” via special/secret/sacred “ordinances”. This “contract” is available ONLY through LDS Inc.
yeah... thats what I hear... but I also hear that salvation and exaltation are not the same... that LDS exaltation is what we understand to be salvation, and that salvation itself in LDS terms refers only to the resurrection of the physical body itself.
However, they will talk about salvation to a non LDS Christian as if it were exaltation, and allow that presumption of “sameness” to exist as long as they are not questioned on it. They will even use salvation/exaltation in the same sentence as if they were synonymous terms.
Not that they do this intentionally, because most of them may not even understand the difference between the two terms according to their own scripture.