There are six saving ordinances a Mormon must receive to have eternal life. Baptism (by one holding the Mormon priesthood) Confirmation and Receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost (by someone holding the priesthood) Receiving the Melchizedek Priesthood (if you’re male) Washing and Anointing (occurs in the temple during the Initiatory) Endowment (in the temple) […]
This past week the Mormon Church premiered a new Endowment film in selected temples across the country. There hasn’t been a lot of information forthcoming on this new film, but what we do know is that its approximately 12-15 minutes longer than the previous one. It has a new cast, a little more detail about […]
November 18 – Hebrews 9:27; “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.”
August 23 – Luke 9:59-60; “And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.”
Mormon Temple Videos It’s hard to encapsulate into one word or even one phrase what it’s like going through the rituals in the Mormon temple. The majority of people are immediately besieged with a creepy feeling from their experience, present company included. While I personally wasn’t married in the temple or went through sealing ceremonies […]
Baptisms for the Dead Moroni 10:26; “And wo unto them who shall do these things away and die, for they die in their sins, and they cannot be saved in the kingdom of God; and I speak it according to the words of Christ; and I lie not.”
April 13 – 1 Cor. 15:16, 29; “For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead?”
Saviors on Mount Zion Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, Chapter 41: pg. 468-478; “We become saviors on Mount Zion by performing sacred ordinances for the dead… “But how are they to become saviors on Mount Zion? By building their temples, erecting their baptismal fonts, and going forth and receiving all the […]
Posthumous Baptisms for the Dead This Time Around – Baptizing Mahatma Gandhi and Daniel Pearl In 2002 Wall Street Journalist Daniel Pearl was killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Fast forward about a decade and Helen Radkey finds the Mormon Church posthumously baptized Mr. Pearl in the summer of 2011 in a Mormon temple in Twin […]
March 1 – Hebrews 9:14 tells us the worthlessness of dead works. It says; “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
